· Primary researchers: Stanley Milgram, a Psychologist from Yale University
· The time period this experiment took place: The Milgram Experiment began In July of 1961. The study was included in Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974).
· Participants: Participants were selected from newspaper advertising. Forty (40) males between the ages of 20 and 50, who were unskilled to professionals, were chosen. Most participants were from the New Haven area.
· Methods used: Each participant was paired with another person. They drew straws to see who would be the “learner” and who would be the “teacher.” This was fixed. Participants were always the teacher, and the learner was one of Milgram’s associates. The Learner was strapped in a chair with electrodes strapped to their arm. The teacher was in the next room with an electric shock generator. The learner was given a list of word pairs to learn. The teacher then gives the learner one of the paired words, and the learner has to determine the other pair from a group of words. If the learner was wrong, the teacher gives a shock. The shock increases each time they get a wrong answer.
· Results: Milgram wanted to see how far people would go in obeying given instructions. The results reported that 65% or 2/3 of the teachers continued to give shocks up to 450 volts. The participants (learners) only went to 300 volts. Basically, most ordinary people are likely to follow orders of authority.
· The time period this experiment took place: The Milgram Experiment began In July of 1961. The study was included in Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974).
· Participants: Participants were selected from newspaper advertising. Forty (40) males between the ages of 20 and 50, who were unskilled to professionals, were chosen. Most participants were from the New Haven area.
· Methods used: Each participant was paired with another person. They drew straws to see who would be the “learner” and who would be the “teacher.” This was fixed. Participants were always the teacher, and the learner was one of Milgram’s associates. The Learner was strapped in a chair with electrodes strapped to their arm. The teacher was in the next room with an electric shock generator. The learner was given a list of word pairs to learn. The teacher then gives the learner one of the paired words, and the learner has to determine the other pair from a group of words. If the learner was wrong, the teacher gives a shock. The shock increases each time they get a wrong answer.
· Results: Milgram wanted to see how far people would go in obeying given instructions. The results reported that 65% or 2/3 of the teachers continued to give shocks up to 450 volts. The participants (learners) only went to 300 volts. Basically, most ordinary people are likely to follow orders of authority.