Title: Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Author: Lauren Slater
Editor: W.W Norton & Company, 2008
Chapter 2: Obscura
Summary
This chapter discussed the obedience experiment of Stanley Milgram, in which a set of people were tricked into thinking that they were shocking a person to death for a learning experiment on the orders of the experimenter. The author discusses the premise of the experiment, its results of 65% of people obeying the experimenter, and the results it had on the psychological community. The author even describes the effect the experiment had on the participants, and the fact that it seems to have changed their responses.
Discussion
I think that this whole experiment was both interesting and shocking. I find the results to be shocking, although the fact that the experience changed many of the participants' lives is to be expected, considering how much of an eye-opener the experience would have been. I also like how this brought into question how much lab results differ from real-world situations, and that the author says that in the real world, people have plenty of opportunities to change their course of behavior.
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