If you are a professional with a Ph.D. related to social psychology and wish to send an email message to the SPSSI or SESP listserv, click on the button below.
Note: SPN also distributes any messages posted through this service to more than 263,000 of its own Twitter and RSS feed subscribers, thereby allowing users to reach a wider audience than the two listservs do.
Search the Archive
to
for the following word(s):
Milgram Replication on Television
Posted by:
Jerry M. Burger
Title/Position:
Professor of Psychology
School/Organization:
Santa Clara University
Sent to listserv of:
SPSP, SESP, SPSSI
Date posted:
December 28th, 2006
Unless pre-empted by a breaking news story, ABC News' PrimeTime Live will devote its January 3rd (Wednesday) program to Milgram's obedience studies and a partial replication of the studies we conducted last July at Santa Clara University. We took care to replicate Milgram's procedures as closely as possible up to the 150-volt point (where the learner's first protests are heard). Looking back at Milgram's Experiment 5 data, we can see that this was something of a point-of-no-return. If participants were going to stop, this most likely would have been the time. If they continued past the 150-volt point, there was a nearly 80 chance that they would continue to the end of the shock generator. Thus, this partial replication provides a reasonable answer to the oft-asked question: Would people today obey an experimenter to the extent they obeyed Milgram's experimenter 45 years ago?
Forum Home Page
