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Chapter "Would You do THAT?"
The Milgram experiment was first conducted in 1961 in New Haven by the American psychologist Stanley Milgram. Milgram wanted to investigate whether the blind obedience of Germans under National Socialism could be explained by social psychology.
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The experiment conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1961 was intended to show the extent to which ordinary people are prepared to inflict physical harm on other people at the behest of an authority (in this case a “scientific” one). It was intended to understand how hundreds of thousands of people could allow themselves to be instrumentalized to commit crimes in the service of National Socialism.
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Students can ...
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Broad Learning Objective:
Students can ...
- reflect on and articulate the social implications of the Milgram experiment
- justify their opinions about various ideas about human behavior
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- Teaching outline,
- handouts,
- Video: “Would you do THAT? - The Milgram Experiment”
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