Analyze how to explain your own behavior and the behavior of others.
Describe conformity, obedience, compliance, group influence, attitude, and attitude change.
Instructions:
Step 1: Watch the following video:
Milgram’s Obedience Study (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Step 2: Respond to the following prompts:
Prepare a convincing argument supporting each of these positions:
The Milgram study should have been conducted because it provided vitally important information about the troubling human tendency to inflict pain and suffering on others in obedience to authority figures.
Despite the value of the knowledge that the Milgram study provided, it should never have been conducted because it subjected research participants to tremendous stress.