milgram

• social context

  ww2 ended in 1945 - the behaviour of the German people during the holocaust

  the nuremberg trials

  article by Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil
• milgram aim

  to investigate how obedient people would be to orders from a person in authority that would result in pain and harm to another person
• hypothesis 1

  that american people would not obey orders that led to them harming another person
• hypothesis 2

  that german men are different to american men
• method

  study at Yale university

  no IV

  'non naturalistic' observation or experimental study
• participants

  self selecting (volunteer) sample - answered advertisements asking for help with Yale university research into memory & learning

  40 20-50 year old men from the New Haven area

  paid $4 per hour
• what is the dv?

  level of obedience measure by the voltage of electric shock that was given