Talk:Stanley Milgram
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I object to the link to Mad Scientist on this page. Milgram's experiments may have had ethical issues, but he certainly wasn't mad. If there are no objections, I will remove this link. Darksun 10:31, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Mai Lai Massacre has nothing to do with Milgram's experiment
Who ever connected the My Lai Massacre to Milgram's experiment of disobedience is incorrect. The My Lai Massacre (1968) occurred five years after Milgram's experiment (1963). As i understand it, Milgram drew his inspiration from the trial and execution (1961-2) of Adolf Eichmann. Milgram speaks of Eichmann in "The Perils of Obedience" (section:"Duty Without Conflict", paragraph 16) as being an example of the agentic state that Milgram mentions in "TPoD." As an aside, milgram may have drawn a connection to the My Lai Massacre in Obedience to Authority, which was published in 1974. Moreover, Milgram may have indicated his intent to consider the authority training, et cetera, as an after-thought of sorts, but there is no connection between the experiment and the Massacre except for the implication of the experiment's results.
- Iam proposing a rework of certain sections of this page. Obedience of authority is indeed a subject that Milgram is concerned with but he is not the "be-all-and-end-all" of obedience authority. Indeed, Philip Zimbardo is a key psychologist concerning authoritarian structures, whether dispostional or situational. I propose renaming the section, obedience to authotity *experiment*. I can bring a wide range of expertise to this subject also.--Knucmo2 22:33, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
David Cesarani, a distinguished Holocaust historian, in his new book, "Becoming Eichmann," says that Milgram's initial experiments weren't inspired by the Eichmann case, although Milgram soon thereafter, in his publications, made the connection. --Christofurio 20:25, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Yale not Harvard!
It is surprising and quite possibly galling that the Wikipedia entry for Stanley Milgram, one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th century, contains such a basic error as to locate his famous obedience experiments, not mention his early professorship, at Harvard University. The average Psych 001 student, not to mention the upperclassman who has taken a class in social psychology, is well be able localize Milgram's famous experiments, as his documentary film so clearly indicates, as occurring at Yale University, where Milgram was, not coincidentally, a member of the faculty during the mid-sixties.
[edit] What about the pointing experiment?
I'm trying to track down information on an experiment that was attributed to Milgram as far as I know. As it was recounted to me, the experiment involved a varying number of individuals stopping suddenly in the middle of a busy city and simultaneously looking upwards (at nothing in particular). My recollection is that when two seperate individuals did it, then a few people would look up to see what they were looking at, if five individuals did it, then a larger number of individuals would stop and 'join in' and at the ultimate - thirty-seven individuals supposedly did so, and they stopped traffic for half an hour as hundreds and hundreds of individuals stopped and joined in. Does anyone know anything further about this study? Thanks! Luke, Australia. 202.164.195.212 00:50, 28 December 2006 (UTC)Luke
