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[Kingz Profile]

I've heard of this before, I think the tv show stole the idea from the Milgram experiment...

Milgram's Electric Shock Experiments

Milgram's famous electric shock studies showed the negative sides of obedience to authority (Milgram 1974). Subjects administered increasingly higher levels of shocks to a confederate as the experimenter repeated their demands that the experiment must continue and they would take responsibility (actually no shocks were actually done). Milgram found that people were willing inflict serious pain on another person when ordered to so do. Sixty percent of subjects (across various social strata and education levels) administered the highest pain levels. The experiement showed the power of the situation to affect behavior -- people focused on the requirements of their position rather than the consequences of their behavior (Scott p. 328).

However, these situational impacts can be dramatically modified with simple changes to the authority-subordinate situation. Organizational changes like flatter hierarchies, participative decision making, multiple channels can encourage independence and reduce blind obedience to authority. "If we are concerned about the extent to which individuals are overly compliant, we need to change the structures within which they are embedded and the cultural definitions that constrain their self-conceptions"

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The Milgram's experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,[1] and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.[2]

The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the question: "Was it that Eichmann and his accomplices in the Holocaust had mutual intent, in at least with regard to the goals of the Holocaust?" In other words, "Was there a mutual sense of morality among those involved?" Milgram's testing suggested that it could have been that the millions of accomplices were merely following orders, despite violating their deepest moral beliefs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

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[Boondox681 Profile]

I've heard of this before, I think the tv show stole the idea from the Milgram experiment.

EVERY t.v. show or movie is ripped-off.there hasen't been a fresh idea in either venue in decades.it's simple..if it ain't broke,don't fix it.

[TheDuck Profile]

I've heard of this before, I think the tv show stole the idea from the Milgram experiment.

EVERY t.v. show or movie is ripped-off.there hasen't been a fresh idea in either venue in decades.it's simple..if it ain't broke,don't fix it.

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