OBEDIANCE

IN 1963...

• Stanley Mailgram questioned how far people's obedience would go .
• He came to the conclusion to do an extreme experiment
• Would someone still shock someone else, to an extreme measure, if told to do so?

THE RULES

• Mailgram gathered peers, asking them to be the "students"
• "Teachers" we're gathered out of random groups of people
• Other psychologists or scientists were asked to "egg on" the "teachers"
• The teachers we're put in the position to ask the students questions
• If wrong, the teacher would administer a shock

THE TEST

• The shock would get higher and higher with every wrong answer
• Some teachers quit at first, others kept going
• Sometimes the students would stay silent, as if out or dead
• Some teachers still kept on with the questions and shocks
• 65% went to the highest level of 450 volts

THE CONCLUSION

• The hypothesis was that no one would go up to the highest voltage
• In reality, mostly everyone did
• Students would scream in pain or not make any noise at all
• Teachers still kept on with the questions and shocks, if told to do so
• Some did it without being reminded that they must

VOLTAGE

• Some teachers cried while still doing the tests
• Some quit right at the beginning
• Some never questioned anything
• Some questioned the researchers, but we're very polite
• No one really yelled except the fake students

HOW IT RELATES

• In history, this odd obedience has been seen in nazi soldiers
• Today, it happens in almost every common work place

PRISON EXPERIMENT

• This is quite like the obedience experiment
• Boys from college were taken to the basement
• They were divided half and half
• Half were guards, half inmates
• It went badly and has never been repeated