“This
exploration of obedience was initially motivated by Milgram’s reflections on
the ease with which the German people obeyed Nazi authority in discriminating
against Jews and, eventually, in allowing Hitler’s Final Solution to be enacted
during the Holocaust.”
You are given an order. Do you go along? What do you think you would do in a situation where you felt the order came from someone in authority? Before he conducted his experiments, Milgram expected Americans to be more resistant to authority than Germans.
Who is the student, and who is the teacher? Who is the subject of the experiment, and what is being studied?
"The experiment must go on."
If
you’ve never read about Milgram’s studies, now would be a good time.
Obedience
to Authority: An Experimental View
by
Stanley Milgram
Paper,
224pp, $14.99
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