Personal Critics-UKeham

Zelda 2022-04-07 09:01:06

Personal Critics-UKeham
Criteria: [A. Boring; B. Fine; C. Nice; D. Great ].
Personal rates: B.
Brief: Telling about several experiments conducted by a psychology professor at Yale University in 1961. One of the most important and controversial is the process and follow-up of the electric shock experiment. This experiment shows the obedience of human nature and the banal sins. The overall film is a bit boring. Base on a story of a famed social psychologist of Yale University conducted a series of experiments in 1961. One of the most significant and controversial was electrical shock experiment concludes the theory of obedience to authority and consents the theory of Mediocre evil.

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Extended Reading
  • Sam 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    Better to make a documentary

  • Virgil 2022-04-05 09:01:07

    Always love this experiment, it shows you where the cruelty of human nature can go. / The scene where the stranger met in the elevator before the party was very interesting. / The art style is reminiscent of the American drama "Master of Sexology". / Winona Ryder has aged too much, but her acting is still precise and subtle. / Fake and real scenes, and talking to the camera are annoying and maddening. / The whole film is like a running account

Experimenter quotes

  • [last lines]

    Stanley Milgram: Alexandra Milgram, Sasha, continues to live in the apartment we shared in Riverdale. Our children live with their children near Boston and Toronto. Sasha never remarried.

    Stanley Milgram: The obedience experiments are cited and discussed in nearly every introductory psychology textbook worldwide. My obedience film is screened for every incoming class at West Point. And my methods and results continue to be challenged, scorned, debunked, yet every time a new outrage is unleashed into the world, sanctioned and systematic acts of violence, the obedience experiments re-enter the conversation, re-framing unanswerable questions.

    Stanley Milgram: You could say we're puppets. But I believe that we are puppets with perception - with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings and, perhaps, our awareness is the first step in our liberation.

  • Stanley Milgram: There was a time, I suspect, when men and women could give a fully human response to any situation, when we could be fully absorbed, in the world, as human beings, but more often now people don't get to see the whole situation but only some small part of it. There's a division of labour and people carry out small, narrow, specialised jobs and we can't act without some sort of direction from on high. I call this the agentic state. The individual yields to authority and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions. The agentic state is 'store policy', it's 'I'm just doing my job', or 'that's not my job', or 'I don't make the rules', 'we don't do that here'. 'just following orders', 'it's the law'. In the agentic state the individual defines himself as an instrument carrying out the wishes of others - a soldier, a nurse, an administrator, an actor, a corporate employee, or even, yes, academics and artists.