I have a question regarding the Milgram experiment. Were the teachers under the impression that the learners were continuing to supply answers voluntarily?
Teachers were instructed to treat silence as an incorrect answer and apply the next shock level to the student.
I imagine—perhaps erroneously—that I would have tried to obtain the verbal agreement of the learner before continuing. But, for example, this is because I know that continuous subject consent is required whereas this might not have been generally known or true in the early 60s.
Of course, I do see the pattern that this is probably such a case where everyone wants to rate themselves as above average (but they couldn’t possibly all be). Still, I will humor my hero-bone by checking out the book and reading about the heroic exceptions, since those must be interesting.
Don’t know the answer to your question; now that I look at the Wikipedia page I realize that I should only have referred to the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment (the phenomenon in the Milgram experiment is not what I had in mind).
I have a question regarding the Milgram experiment. Were the teachers under the impression that the learners were continuing to supply answers voluntarily?
The learner was perceived to initially agree to the experiment, but among the recordings in the programmed resistance was one demanding to be let out.
Ah, also this sentence helped my understanding:
I imagine—perhaps erroneously—that I would have tried to obtain the verbal agreement of the learner before continuing. But, for example, this is because I know that continuous subject consent is required whereas this might not have been generally known or true in the early 60s.
Of course, I do see the pattern that this is probably such a case where everyone wants to rate themselves as above average (but they couldn’t possibly all be). Still, I will humor my hero-bone by checking out the book and reading about the heroic exceptions, since those must be interesting.
Don’t know the answer to your question; now that I look at the Wikipedia page I realize that I should only have referred to the Zimbardo Stanford Prison Experiment (the phenomenon in the Milgram experiment is not what I had in mind).