Question

Do you think that the results of the Milgram experiments would be different if done in a more collectivist culture like in Asia or West Africa?

Answer 1

First let's undertsand what is a miligram experiment:

Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University carried out studies on obedience in psychology.He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority.

The main aim of his study was to see how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person.

Since I am in the field of Psychology who has extensively studied Stanley, i would like you to see the below snap of his originlly performed Miligram experiment (He then re worked on this particular experiment 18 times)

Source: Data from S. Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. 1974; and S. Milgram, The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1992.

Collectivist culture is the one which values the needs of a group over an individual, people tend to work in harmony large groups is the basic idea.

Now as i earlier mentioned that he re worked on this particular experiment 18 times and that was the time when Western and eastern both cultures had been through the shock treatments but it was purely an individualistic response rather than a group response. Hence to my knowledge eastern or western culture didn't make much of a difference.