“Nervous? You only have 75 more to go.”
The experiment requires that you continue
Submitted 2 months ago by cassowary@lemm.ee to science_memes@mander.xyz
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thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only_Slightly_Bent@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Pronell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember, Sammy Jankis!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Which is the opposite of what they should have been doing. The shock would actually re-enforce a memory. So, they should have been shocking correct answers. Because, when we do something and then get hurt, we remember the thing that hurt us.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You know it wasn’t actually a study on memory?
yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Milligram experiment is almost as big a humbug as the Stanford prison experiment.
When the study was run without a “scientist”, but instead a policeman or military officer, the participants who went full voltage dropped from 90+% compliance to 90+% refusal. This completely contradicts the supposed “findings” that people uncritically obey authority.
After the war, a whole cottage industry of psychologists and philosophers tried to answer why it was that ordinary Germans could participate in horror. Simple, but wrong explanations like “humans obey authority uncritically” were in high demand.
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Humans begrudgingly obey authority when threatened.