Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgramwas an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiment on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale. Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing the experiment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth15 August 1933
CountryUnited States of America
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Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.
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And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
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With numbing regularity, good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe,