Question

What connection does the author draw between Milgram’s personal history and his experiments? Cite evidence from the text in your response.

Answer 1

Answer:

Milgram's experiments shows that participants give their feelings and moral values to the authority figure.

Explanation:

Milgram's personal history reveals that he believed that the participants were giving their feelings and personal moral values to the authority figure. Some experiments showed that the meaning of the hypothesis wasn't possible.

For example: "When others disobey, it becomes more acceptable for you to disobey. However, you will deny that your rebellion was a result of theirs."

Answer 2

Answer:

The connection the author drew between Milgram’s personal history and his experiments is that people's feelings and actions are governed and dictated by authority figures.

From his work, he noted that substantial amount of people do what they are told to do without considering the adverse effects of such actions. People's actions are dictated and directed by others.

Citing an evidence from the text:

"When others disobey, it becomes more acceptable for you to disobey. However, you will deny that your rebellion was a result of theirs."

Explanation:

Stanley Milgram, an American psychologist from Yale University carried out various experiments on obedience (about 19 experiments). His experiments were found to have consistent results. It demonstrated that people were willing to obey an authority figure even if the actions went against their morals.

This began from the time of the Nazi war.

The goal was to study obedience of humans during the period of the atrocities of Nazi Germany when, as Milgram described it, “millions of innocent persons were systematically slaughtered on command.