Stanley Milgram - University of Wisconsin–Platteville
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1933-1984
By: Zach Melms
Great
Depression
End of prohibition
Franklin Roosevelt
Racism
WWII
Nuremburg
trials
Social
Psychologist
Hated directional hypothesis testing
Drugs
Peyote
Mescaline
Weed
Amphetamines
Cocaine
Prostitutes?
Samuel
Hungary
Moved to America in 1921
Adele
Milgram
Milgram
Romania
Moved to America in 1913
Met
in America
Married February 1931
Parents owned and ran a bakery
Older
sister Marjorie
Not very close as children
“throw him in the incinerator”
Stanley
Born in South Bronx 1933
Naturally inquisitive
Younger
brother Joel
Close relationship
Moved
houses a lot due to the depression
Excelled
in school
Classmates with Phillip Zimbardo
Graduated High school in 3 years
Attended
Queens College
Political Science
Trip to France
Originally
University
denied entrance to Harvard
Took
6 classes at 3 different Universities
Brooklyn University
Hunter University
New York University
Accepted
into Harvard in 1954
Gordon Allport
Met Solomon Asch
“Most
important scientific influence”
Milgram was his teacher’s assistant for a year
Studied conformity
Asch conformity experiment
Naïve participant agreed with the majority
approximately 1/3 the time
Inspired
Milgram’s interest into conformity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyDDyT
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Cross
Norway
National Comparison
College Students/ factory workers
Jante Laws
France
Failed
statistics portion necessary for
graduation
Spent 1 year at each place
Moved
to Princeton to help his mentor
Solomon Asch
Miserable
Poor housing
No free time for his dissertation
Assisted
him in book on conformity research
Received no credit
Became
assistant professor in 1960
Married his wife Alexandra Menkin in 1961
Kids
Michele 1964
Marc 1967
Started
his Shock Tests
Later started “Lost Letter Tests”
2/3
went all the way in his original set up
Had more than 20 variations
Distance between participant and “learner”
Distance between participant and experimenter
Seeing others defy the experimenter
Participant can choose the level of shock
No
difference between male and female
Trial of Adolf Eichmann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwqNP9
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0:19-2:20, 4:06-4:34
Used
deception
Participants experienced high levels of stress
This and things like Tuskegee Syphilis Study
lead to the creation of the IRB
Assistant
professor 1963
Continued “Lost Letter”
Started the “Small World Problem”
6 degrees of separation
Turns into 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9uTITxwoM
Denied
tenure in 1966
Graduate
Center of the City University of
New York
Head of Social Psychology PhD department
1967
Expected to leave in 5 years
Created an Urban Emphasis
Interested
in “Overload”
With help from a student they created the
movie “The City and the Self”
Looked at:
Mental Maps
Subway Norms
56% give up their seat
Familiar Strangers
Antisocial
Gained
permission from CBS
Had a show replicated 3 times and only
changed the ending
Resulted in no increase in antisocial behavior
Results not special but the fact that he got
such control over the Independent variable
Writing
style was understandable to all
readers
Used comedy to keep readers interested
Often used sarcasm in academic debates
“Orne’s suggestion that the subjects only feigned
sweating, trembling, and stuttering to please the
experimenter is pathetically detached from
reality, equivalent to the statement that
hemophiliacs bleed to keep their physicians
busy”
Knowing
now that Milgram did illegal things
such as drugs/prostitution does that make
you view his work any differently?
Does all of the valuable information that we
gained from his studies justify his unethical
treatment of participants?
Alic,
M. (2008, January 1). Milgram, Stanley.
Retrieved April 29, 2015, from
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/St
anley_Milgram.asp
Blass, T. (2004). The man who shocked the
world: The life and legacy of Stanley
Milgram. New York: Basic Books