Mod4: Developing a Research Question

Stanley Milgram - 1961-1963

• • Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

  • Sheridan, C. and King, R. (1972) Obedience to Authority with and Authentic Victim, 1972. (pdf)

Prison Stanford Experiment (1973)

Criticisms:

• • guards were pushed by researchers

  • guards were doing what they thought researchers wanted

  • small sample size

  • anecdotal evidence

  • biggest results was that we take on the roles assigned to us

  • Insider Higher Ed - Time to Dismiss the Stanford Prison Experiment?

    • alternative explanations

    • predispositions to sadism (selection bias)

    • BBC Prison Study: "when people can’t create a social system that works, they’ll 'more readily accept extreme solutions proposed by others' "