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The Milgram Experiment

Before it was illegal to do psychology experiments on humans, Dr. Milgram did this test to see what people will do simply if they're told to.

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10/14/2006 7:04:08 PM

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rob1134 : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

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1135 days 10 hours ago...

sweet 5 bucks and all i gotta do is get shocked by 450 volts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Havoc2K7 : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

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1135 days 9 hours ago...

D! Is completely right on this one and if he hadnt said it I wouldve, this experiment was done last year by Darren Brown in his heist show, there is nothing illegal about performing experiments on humans, merely ethical issues.

Like the Dr.Zimbago (sp?) experiment, where the teenagers were arrested and assigned the roles of prisoner and prison guard in a university basement. (sort of explains the shitty treatment middle eastern prisoners get in Guantanamo etc)

I disagree with unethical testing like the Bowlby experiements with the monkeys, but there is alot to learn from certain experiements. I believe milgrams was banned. But without it, there would be a major lack of understanding of human behaviour. The question is, is it because we have evolved into monsters, or once were monsters and it shows through genetically>?

Cool shit basically.

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Cleric : LVL 23: VP 3.2: said:

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1135 days 9 hours ago...

all you retards out there saying you wouldn't listen to the guy in the white suit can't actually say you wouldn't until you've been put into a situation like that. Its easy to sit there and type on the computer and act all tough and independent, but the results of this particular experiment prove that you're much more likely to have listened to him then to not. I am pretty sure that only one person actually stoped during this experiment. Don't quote me on that.

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Metallicus : LVL 10: VP 1.9: said:

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1135 days 9 hours ago...

Sick. In the good and bad way.

5/5

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D! : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

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1135 days 9 hours ago...

^^^ No, it was far more than one. And they did many variants of this experiment as well. But you have a good point in that everyone SAYS they wouldn't follow. Everyone likes to believe that about themselves. In fact, they asked mental health professionals what percentage they thought would go all the way to 450 volts, and they came up with a small percentage.

Just like no one says "I'm a total tool- I believe everything Fox news says" or "I spend extra money on Abercrombie and Fitch because I', such a mindless shill that I let advertising influence me" or "I'm a weak minded idiot who likes to believe things that make me feel good, rather than the truth," nobody says "I'd totally be intimidated by that dude in the white coat."

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Tada : LVL 12: VP 2.1: said:

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1135 days 9 hours ago...

Lol stupids^^ Volt is not leathal :)
Ampere is leathal. Volt is the thing that makes it goes longer. Like 450volt could travel trough a persons body and go through the heart and stop it.
Yes that can happen BUT if the ampere is lower than 6mA than it cant stop it AND you can kill someone by sending electrity thru the arms.
Only then the electricty goes from one arm to another can it kill a person.
The whole thing plays more on the public view on volts than on real killing force.
Still if a person thinks its deadly then the it is bad to them.

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user_name : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

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1135 days 9 hours ago...

i liked the real video better.

actor: "hey hey"
teacher: "phew, i thought you were dead, i was about to leave"

at the end, they mentioned a setup where the subject forces the hand of the learner onto a metal plate for shocks. that's probably a kodak moment.

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Tada : LVL 12: VP 2.1: said:

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1135 days 9 hours ago...

*you cant kill someone by sending electrity thru the arms.

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Crimson Wave : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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1135 days 8 hours ago...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

http://en.wikipedia.or
g/wiki/The_Third_Wave

The Third Wave was the name given by history teacher Ron Jones to an experimental recreation of Nazi Germany which he claims to have conducted with high school students.

Also check out Asch conformity experiments and the Standford prison experiment. There is a German movie out about the prison experiment called Das Experiment (1999) and it's amazing.

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evergrim : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

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1135 days 8 hours ago...

Terrifying. I will never forget this video if anyone tries to impose their will on me in my lifetime. I will endeavour to say NO, and punch the guy out if I have to.

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Radje : LVL 2: VP 1.1: said:

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1135 days 8 hours ago...

Don't foll yourself JonGuzman. Milgram experimented on normal middle class white people. People who had never thought they would kill someone in their lives and who, before that experiment, would've thought the same as you. They continued however. Only a few stopped before the end of the experiment.

What the video didn't say is that the experimentors had 4 commands to say to the "teacher" figure. They would insist he continued in four different ways and if he said "no" to all of them they would simply nod and say "fair enough" and explain the experiment to them.

I'd like to think i wouldn't do that, but had i been as clueless as them about the true intentions of the experiment. Who knows.

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llsinnerll : LVL 7: VP 1.6: said:

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1135 days 7 hours ago...

I learned something that was very true in Marine Corps. Boot Camp. "Pain Retains!" BIATCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

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pentwo : LVL 11: VP 2: said:

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1135 days 7 hours ago...

Just so you know, the patients werent just aloud to go home. there was an extensive debriefing were they explained what was going on and even met the person that they were 'shocking' in a friendly atmosphere

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myeewyee : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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1135 days 6 hours ago...

Read about this before. very insightful.

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RenegadeBiker87 : LVL 28: VP 3.7: said:

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1135 days 5 hours ago...

Actually this experiment is now considered "illegal" to recreate because it is considered unethical. It involved decepting the people in the experiment which is why it is now considered to be illegal and unethical.

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