Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted studies focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - - that they were just following orders of their superiors.

These hypotheses were explored in what is perhaps the most famous and controversial study in social psychology. Stanley Milgram hypothesized that his subjects will comply to his orders, regardless of their moral beliefs, because it is human nat

hment sequence he wanted but the sequence had to be ascending without any level being repeated and if the learner made twelve errors it is mandatory to administer a noise level of 18. Right before the experiment began, only half of the subjects received the following condition; an undergraduate entered the room to collect his belonging which were left in the room (on purpose). He casually mentioned to the "teacher" that the apparatus in the control room is broken and works at a double intensity so that level four, for example, operates at level eight (etc.). This manipulation is crucial to the experiment because it serves as the independent variable which will ultimately test the obedience level of the subjects. The dial setting were the major dependant variable of the study. The teachers were given three minutes to set up their apparatus and if the 12th dial was not set up at the 18th level, the experimenter asked the teacher why he hadn't obeyed the orders he was given.!

woman and we will record the findings of compliance or discompliance, even between those of males and females reactions to a woman as the figure of authority. In a second case, the authority figure will be male and we will record any variation in obedience between the genders, as subjects. I am also inclined to perform an experiment in which we ask men and women to take an assessment test of Milgram's original study. We will test to what extent they place the responsibility on the participants in the study; experimenter, subject or learner. With all the findings and results compared, I am certain that our findings will be statistically significant both in compliance and responsibility placing, they will support my hypothesis of strong gender differences in relation to obedient behavior.

On the contrary, the Russian participants saw little difference between the obedient and politely disobedient teachers, they were both valued very highly. Another interesting observation was that the Russians were very critical of the defiant disobedient teacher but not that critical of the disobeying teacher who used vulgarity. This suggests the Russians seek to find a socially appropriate way to disobey as opposed to Americans who have not socially correct way to end the experiment. Of the Russian participants, 60% said that they would have been disobedient had they been in the teacher's place, and as well they placed the most responsibility to the experimenter, teacher and learner respectively. This design of the experiment is a well constructed study of different assessment and obedient behavior among different cultures using the Milgram paradigm. The study found that of the Americans, 86% said they would've disobeyed the orders. The difference between the Americans a!

ure to comply to an authority figure.

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