Question

Man’s inhumanity to man is well-documented. Did Milgram’s experiment explain this human behavior?

Answer 1

Milgram's experiment was done by Stanley Milgram's of Yale university, on the psychology of conflict between obidiobed to an athority and one's own conscience. He was trying to experiment on the justification given by the accused of World war 2, war criminal trials, that the cruelty they did we're just an act of following orders, that they were just following the orders given to them by their athorities. In this experiment some people were called and assigned the role of teacher and some people from experiment team acted as learners. Learner's were seated on a chair, tied with electrodes. Learners had to learn pair of words and teachers had to ask them to answer the pairing word for asked questions. Teachers were directed to give learners electric shock for every wrong answer. Intensity of shock increased with every wrong answer. Learns answered wrong mostly on purpose. When some teachers refused to give shock they were give prodes like "please continue", "the experiment needs you to continue", "you must continue", "you have no other choices". The result was found that 65% of people who were given the role of teachers gave shocks upto 450 volts, which is a dangerous, severe shock and all of the participants continued till 300 volts. He summed with , in a simple experiment, ordinary citizens could inflict severe pain on another person just vecabec they were orderdo by a experimental scientist. Even after listening to the screams they continued following orders and inflicted shocks. Authority won over moral imparative so easily. This experiment explains human behavior how man can be inhuman to man in the influence of inhuman athorities, and makes cruel acts to happen like, genocide by Nazis, world war 2 etc.