The Milgram Experiment
We live in a world that demands obedience to authority which are necessary for society to function. Yet, obedience can have sinister effects on society, as authority figures have little need to justify actions. Conformity is an effect that influences everyone to do things they might not have otherwise done. Both obedience and conformity have led to atrocious acts. Social psychologists in recent times have endeavoured to discover why mankind is influenced by them. Experiments like Milgrams ．Obedience to Authority・ and Zimbardo・s ．Stanford Prison Experiment・, have further explained these phenomena. They have provided enormous insights, and simultaneously produced disturbing results. Horrendous crimes against humanity have occurred in our times. The holocaust is prevalent in our thinking, education, and development. Many have grappled with how an event such as this was allowed to occur. Golding・s novel ．Lord of the Flies・ endeavours to address to notion of evil in ordinary people which was highlighted after the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials. Hannah Arendt description of the ．banality of evil・ reminds us that evil is not restricted to the realm of the pathological.
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Approximate Word count = 3163
Approximate Pages = 13 (250 words per page double spaced)
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