Milgram's Obedience Study Findings

Milgram Aim: Investigate how obedient individuals would be to orders, even if harmful.

Sample: 40 males, 20-50 years old, variety of jobs and education Volunteer Sampling.

Reward: $4.50 Controlled Observational Study Procedure: Introduced to a

likeable middle aged man. He assigned the roles, participant=teacher.

He claims the experiment is to find the effect of punishment. The learner is then strapped into the

chair and the participant gets the example shock. 15v to 450 v and it goes from slight

shock to XXX. The word pair exam begins, every incorrect answer goes up 15v.

Verbal prods "You must go on" After 150v, there is silence with kicks.