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Shockingly, Obedience Rates Remain Unchanged Even After 50 Years!
Jerry M. Burger, PhD, replicated one of the famous obedience experiments of the late Stanley Milgram, PhD.
He found that compliance rates in the replication were only slightly lower than those found by Milgram and there was no difference in the rates of obedience between men and women just like the previous experiment.
"People learning about Milgram's work often wonder whether results would be any different today. Many point to the lessons of the Holocaust and argue that there is greater societal awareness of the dangers of blind obedience. But what I found is the same situational factors that affected obedience in Milgram's experiments still operate today," said Burger.
Stanley Milgram was an assistant professor at Yale University in 1961 when he conducted the first in a series of experiments in which subjects - thinking they were testing the effect of punishment on learning - administered what they believed were increasingly powerful electric shocks to another person in a separate room.
An authority figure conducting the experiment prodded the first person, who was assigned the role of "teacher" to continue shocking the other person, who was playing the role of "learner." In reality, both the authority figure and the learner were in on the real intent of the experiment, and the imposing-looking shock generator machine was a fake.
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