PSY 302 IRB Stanley Milgram's study on obedience and authority

Discussion of the Stanley Milgram's Study

As Milgram writes in his article, for some people obedience is a deeply "ingrained behavior tendency", which can create an impulse that can override past ideas in morality and ethics. While his experiment focused closely on the psychology behind response to obedience, his central idea conveyed substantial themes which bore on conceptions of professional ethics. One of these themes involved the previously underestimated significances of the potency of authority in influencing decision-making, even ones that go against one's own conscientious imperatives.

As most of us are "indoctrinated" in our childhood to develop a basic conception of values and virtues, one of the things we as human...