"Electrocuting" people for science - The Milgram experiment
Channel: Brains Applied
Date: 2017-08-26

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest movie about the notorious Milgram Experiment, an experiment about our obedience to authority.

In this experiment, participants had to electrocute other people if they made a mistake on a word pairing test.  The participants were told that the goal was to “investigate the influence of punishment on learning”. However, the real goal was to investigate how far people would go in harming other people when they were told to do so by an authoritarian force. 

The results of the experiment were shocking…

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Our beloved references:
McLeod, S. A. (2007). The Milgram Experiment. Retrieved from www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html

ScienceDaily (2017). Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Conducting the Milgram experiment in Poland, psychologists show people still obey. Retrieved from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314081558.htm

Geher, G. (2015). What Would YOU Have Done in Milgram’s Experiment? Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/darwins-subterranean-world/201509/what-would-you-have-done-in-milgram-s-experiment

Milgram, S. (1963). Behavioral Study of Obedience. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20150404094832/http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/social_dilemmas/fall/Readings/Week_06/milgram.pdf

Integrated Psychology (2013). The Milgram Variations. Retrieved from http://www.integratedsociopsychology.net/milgram_variations.html
Milgram, S. (2009). Obedience to Authority. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc.