Milgram study

• The Milgram Experiment aims:

  1. To test if any individual could be made to go against their moral code and obey 
  2. To test if there was something different about Germans that made them obey
• Milgram’s experiments did not support the idea that Germans are different. His study showed that anyone could be capable of destructive obedience
• Milgram's study supports situational explanations of obedience
• Milgram got participants to administer electric shocks of increasing voltage (15 - 450V) under the orders of an experimenter
• Milgram found that 65% of participants obeyed up to the highest voltage of 450 volts, and 100% obeyed up to 300​ volts
• Participants were 40 American male volunteers