Pharagon represents Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist and his experiment "Obedience to Authority" to designed to study the influence of authority commands on conscience of subjects. The subject or participant played the teacher and was told to ask questions to the learner, a confederate, and adminster increasing electric shocks for every wrong answer. From 15 up to 450 volts .
Some teachers obeyed and blamed the learners for answering questions incorrect, some rebelled further instructions, others blamed themselves for inflicting pain to the learners.
Milgram’s experiment demonstrates how the commands from the authorities influence the actions of its subjects. The actions of the subjects depend on the level of hierarchy of needs that they require according to the Maslow’s theory.
Results show that the lower the needs that require satisfaction, the higher the influence of orders and that educational systems, cultural values and family values determine one’s morality and conscience when faced with the dilemma of obedience.
Pharagon chose Milgram and his obedience study because he thinks that this matter is still a very present one. Do you think the study would bring the same results as when it was conducted initially?
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