Microblogs for Obedience to Authority

Reference Information

Title - Obedience to Authority

Author - Stanley Milgram

Publisher - 1993 Harper Perennial

Chapter 1

    In this chapter, Milgram talks about the Nazi experiments. While discussing obedience he talks about how obedient a person is under bad circumstances. 

Chapter 2 

    In this chapter Milgram decides to talk about his study performances. Milgram talks about everything from, tasks involved, procedures, participants, locations, etc. 

Chapter 3

    Milgram, In chapter 3, goes on to discuss what college students, adults, and psychiatrists thought about the experiment. He talked about what they had predicted would happen. Most believe the subject wouldn't do what the leader would say. 

Chapter 4

      Here, Milgram goes on to talked about 4 different experiments, In the very 1st one, feedback was derived from a victim hitting a wall. The next one, the victim was yelling and screaming. The 3rd, this time the subject of the experiment was actually placed in the same room as the victim. Finally, the subject ordered the victim to put their hand on the plate, in order to get shocked. 

Chapter 5:

      In this chapter, Milgram decides to in depth with the many different subjects on the experiment. He discusses survey information and just basic knowledge about them.

Chapter 6

    In the 6th chapter, several variations were added to the original experiment to see if it would have the same results. Women were now brought into the experiment as well as moving the location somewhere else.

Chapter 7

     Milgram decides to talk more about subjects from a few different experiments, most of which were women. Thiis discussion talked about personal reactions and thoughts.

Chapter 8 

       This chapter talked about how changing various parts of the expermint eventually lead to different results. 

Summary

   It was interesting to look at all the different changes and modifications to the experiment by the author.We had read about this experiment in another book. I enjoyed reading about it previously so I thought it was really nice to get even more in depth information from this experiment.