Explanations of why people obey. (Milgram, 1974)
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- MILGRAM (1974)
- Agentic shift
- Justifying obedience
- Gradual commitment
- The role of buffers
- Mandel (1998)
- Suggested that by focusing solely on obedience to explain atrocities against humanity Milgram was ignoring many other explanations.
- Goldhagan (1996)
- Identifies anti-Semitism as the main reason for the holocaust not obedience.
- Supports this claim with countless examples of voluntary and unnecessary cruelty carried out by ordinary Germans against Jews.
- Browning (1992)
- There were many differences between Milgram's study and the experience of the holocaust.
- Experiment only lasted 30 minutes the holocaust took place over a 4-year period.
- Milgram's participants were told that "although the shocks may be painful, there is no permamnet tissue damage".
- Milgram still believed that the same psychological process and agentic shift was at work.
- There were many differences between Milgram's study and the experience of the holocaust.
- Mandel (1998)
- The use of an 'obedience alibi' has a number of consequences
- The conclusion that obedience has a key role in the holocaust is unjustified.
- The suggestion that holocaust perpetrators were merely 'obeying orders' is distressing for those who were affected by the holocaust.
- It exonerates war criminals of their crimes.
- The use of an 'obedience alibi' has a number of consequences
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