AO3 - Milgram

• Participants may have guessed demand characteristics and acted accordingly. (Please you, screw you effect)


  Limitation - Milgrams study
• Lacks ecological validity.


  Limitation - Milgrams study
• Ethics

  • Deception - advert, teacher and learner, shocks etc.
  • Lack of informed consent - they were deceived so participants could not give ful consent.
  • Harm - some participants suffered extreme stress reactions as well as embarrassment and feelings of being used.


  Limitation - Milgrams study
• Showed how easily people obeyed without question.


  Strength - Milgrams study
• Replicable design

  Strength - Milgrams study
• Control over variables

  Strength - Milgrams study
• Real-world application


  Strength - Milgrams study