The Milgram Obedience Experiment was used to explain the severity- responsibility effect where greater responsibility is ascribed to the person involved in events with severe outcomes than in mild-outcome events. The Milgram Obedience Experiment involves the watching of a film where a 'teacher' is...

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Discusses the different views of two authors on obedience. The articles discussed are Stanley Milgram's "Obedience to Authority" and Diana Baumrind's "Review of Milgram's Experiment."

Summarizes a study by Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist, reported in "The Perils of Obedience," suggesting that under a special set of circumstances the obedience we naturally show authority figures can transform us into agents of terror or monsters towards humanity.

Questions if Milgrims study of obedience can be considered ethical when compared to modern British guidelines.