AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -During the 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of obedience experiments that led to some surprising results. In the study, an authority figure ordered participants to deliver what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to another person.

Detailed explanation-2: -More than fifty years ago, then Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted the famous-or infamous-experiments on destructive obedience that have come to be known as “Milgram’s shocking experiments” (pun usually intended).

Detailed explanation-3: -Social psychologist Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative–even when acting against their own better judgment and desires.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aim: Milgram (1963) was interested in researching how far people would go in obeying an instruction if it involved harming another person. Stanley Milgram was interested in how easily ordinary people could be influenced into committing atrocities, for example, Germans in WWII.