"Milgram Test" Repeated; People Still Willing to Torture

by leavingwt 7 Replies latest social current

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  leavingwt

  More information on why your friends and loved ones can treat you so horribly, at the request of an authority figure -- Watchtower.

  Decades after a notorious experiment, scientists have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others - if told to by an authority figure.

  US researchers repeated the famous "Milgram test", with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer - played by an actor.

  Even after faked screams of pain, 70% were prepared to increase the voltage, the American Psychology study found.

  Both may help explain why apparently ordinary people can commit atrocities.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7791278.stm
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  beksbks

  Geeezus, thanks LWT! I know Burn would gleefully increase the voltage to me
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  BurnTheShips

  Geeezus, thanks LWT! I know Burn would gleefully increase the voltage to me

  Nah. It's the current that actually kills. BTS
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  leavingwt

  bttt...

  ...and more about Stanley Milgram.

  http://pagesperso-orange.fr/qualiconsult/milgramb.html
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  VM44

  William Shatner played Stanley Milgram in a 1975 TV movied called "The Tenth Level"

  For the theatrical presentation the real name "Stanley Milgram" was changed to "Stephen Turner."

  The Tenth Level (1975) (TV)

  William Shatner ... Prof. Stephen Turner

  Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazi's, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science"
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  leavingwt

  VM44,

  I had no idea. Thanks.

  -LWT
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  SacrificialLoon

  "William Shatner"
  
  You. Must. Press. The. Button. Now. The. Experiment. Depends. On. It. KHAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!
  
  
  It's not surprising that people haven't changed much since the first test.
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  LDH

  I can think of a bunch of old Pharasees I wouldn't mind carrying out this experiment on. Do you think they would ship this equipment to 117 Adams Street?