Summary on Stanley Milrams,

In Milgram’s basic experimental setup, ordinary people were recruited and brought into a laboratory to participate in what they were told was a study of exploring the effects of punishment on learning behavior. On arrival, they were given the role of the teacher, but were actually the unknowing subjects of the experiment.

The subjects – “teachers”– would read a series of word pairs to the “learner”, who then was asked to select the correct corresponding word from four alternatives. The teacher was asked to administer an electric shock of increasing intensity for each mistake the learner made. The teacher was not aware that the “learner” in the study was actually an actor who was merely indicat

Brandt’s mannerly behavior, and total control of her own conduct, was the exact outcome that Milgram had hypothesized. Before conducting the experiments, Milgram sought predictions of the outcome from a wide variety of people. Virtually all subjects would refuse to obey the experimenter, they believed, predicting that a normal person could not be induced into severely shocking a stranger without provocation. These opinions gave way to an unexpected outcome.

The last subject Milgram points to is Bruno Batta. Milgram changes the experimental setup in which the teacher must directly administer the shock by forcing the learners hand onto a shock plate. Bruno calmly completes the entire experiment with little hostility. He is so caught up in doing is job he becomes blind to the learner’s pain. He acts with no regard to consequences, instead his sole purpose is to do his job correctly by completing the entire experiment. Several other subjects were tested in the same situation. Despite Bruno’s reactions, the direct interaction between the teacher and learner created a drop in obedience from 65% to 40%. Milgram tested this theory in reverse by conducting an experiment where the teacher was required t

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