Milgram was interested in understanding what happens when obedience to authority overtakes personal conscience.
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Before the experiment Milgram polled people asking how many teachers they thought would go to the maximum voltage.
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Milgram found that 65% (26 of 40) of participants administered the maximum voltage even after the learner had stopped responding.
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In Milgram's experiment, 79 percent of participants who got to that point went all the way to the maximum shock, he said.
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Still, some psychologists quoted in the same issue of American Psychologist questioned how comparable this study is to Milgram's, given the differences in methods.
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The "teachers" in this recent experiment, conducted in 2006, also received several reminders that they could quit whenever they wanted, unlike in Milgram's study.
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But Jerry Burger, professor of psychology at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California, made some tweaks to see if Milgram's results hold up today.
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Most people would answer this question with an adamant no, but Milgram conducted a series of obedience experiments during the 1960s that demonstrated surprising results.
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Labor Day and Memorial Day used to be days of rest, too, said Rich Milgram, CEO of career network Beyond.com, which connects employers and job seekers.
To eliminate bias from the fame of Milgram's experiment, Burger ruled out anyone who had taken two or more college-level psychology classes, and anyone who expressed familiarity with it in the debriefing.
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Milgram's project fits one element of the Arnold model: fund promising research for relatively small amounts millions, if that can be deemed small with the implicit commitment to spend substantially more if the results point to practical solutions.
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His study's design imitated Milgram's, even using the same scripts for the experimenter and suffering learner, but the key difference was that this experiment stopped at 150 volts -- when the learner starts asking to leave.
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The new results correlate well with Milgram's: 70 percent of the 40 participants were willing to continue after 150 volts, compared with 82.5 percent in Milgram's study -- a difference that is not statistically significant, Burger said.
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Psychological studies, such as the one Stanley Milgram carried out at Yale University and published in 1974, have repeatedly shown that, given certain conditions, 80% of most populations will either collude or directly take part in acts of violence.
They have looked again at the famed Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiment studies from the 1960s and 1970s, and have come to different conclusions as to why people do the wrong things when they believe an authority wants them to do so.
What we don't know, and won't until New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram finishes her review of this case, is whether this happened because Newark is a so-called sanctuary city , where local police are not required to determine the immigration status of those they arrest, let alone inform federal officials.
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