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Archive for October, 2008

30 Oct

Theme: Obedience To Authority

Posted by Niko in Illusions. Tagged: "obedience to authority", stanley milgram. Leave a Comment

It is amazing how people will do as they’re told as long as the other party has a special symbol or title. Very few people question what they consider authority. People ask very few questions do to socialization and cultural beliefs created and perpetrated by those in the upper echelons of education, religion and government. [...]

30 Oct

Stanley Milgram Obedience To Authority

Posted by Niko in Illusions. Tagged: "obedience to authority", milgram experiment, philip zimbard, quiet rage, sociological experiment, sociology, stanford prison experiment, stanley milgram. Leave a Comment

This is the obedience to authority experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram. It’s a shocking (pun intended) depiction of people’s tendency to obey what they perceive as an authority. Keep in mind that the abstract concept, “authority” is perceived by a simple change of uniform. The people in this experiment were willing to shock people simply [...]

30 Oct

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment

Posted by Niko in Illusions. Tagged: "obedience to authority", milgram experiment, philip zimbardo, quiet rage, sociological experiment, sociology, stanford prison experiment, stanley milgram. Leave a Comment

Another experiment about obedience, this time conducted by Philip Zimbardo. One in which, Zimbardo was drawn into himself. Watch as the participants (who had full knowledge that this was an experiment) fall quickly into each of their social roles, and act accordingly. This was also topic of Zimbardo’s discussion on how ordinary people can easily [...]

30 Oct

Derren Brown’s Milgram Experiment

Posted by Niko in Illusions. Tagged: "obedience to authority", derren brown, milgram experiment, philip zimbardo, sociological experiment, sociology, stanley milgram. Leave a Comment

Derren Brown, psychological illusionist, has a go at the Milgram Experiment for his show. Derren Brown mimicked the original experiment, and told each participant that the experiment was to measure their responses to authority. As in the original Milgram experiment, over 50% of the participants administered the “lethal” shock of 450 volts to the other [...]