Derren Brown's Recreation of the Milgram Experiment

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The Milgram Experiment in the 1960s became a famous experiment for what it proved about human behaviour - that all individuals are willing to follow authority, almost without question, even though it may mean inflicting great pain or doing things that they, as an individual of their own doing, would never do. This video is of Derren Brown's recreation of the experiment and, in it, you can see the tension and personal conflict of participants in trying to decide whether to continue and inflict pain on another human being or walk away from the experiment. Milgram's original hypothesis was that only 3% of participants would inflict the potentially fatal shocks upon "the learner", but an astounding 65% continued with the shocking "because they were instructed to by an authority figure". People are amazing objects of study!

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• milgram
• derrenbrown
• experiments
• stanford

[SpoonsForks]

how is this legal to redo this experiment? i thought this caused a great deal of harm to the "teachers"

[keenermarc]

@SpoonsForks

I don't know if anyone was harmed, as in traumatized. They weren't harmed to the degree that participants (prisoners mostly) were harmed during The Stanford Prison Experiment. They likely did the same type of screening to weed out people who were emotionally or mentally weak. It's interesting that only one participant in this version was aware of the previous 1960s experiment!

[g00dm00sic]

god i wanna punch the douchebag who asked for more notches...

[g00dm00sic]

@SpoonsForks the original experiment was done in yale university in america. the american psychology association later on banned experiments causing this much stress on human subjects but they have no say in experiments conducted in the UK.

[SerenityMellissa]

I can't believe only one person. We have got to learn from our collective human past. This makes me sad.

[silversquall]

@SpoonsForks

Also, it's not like there's anything in the law to not allow the "experiment" to be replicated. It's simply the case that many (if not all) review boards will not allow a university to conduct such an experiment.  I have to say most though cause...well, I'm pretty sure I've come across an empirical article that did a similar thing, so that one definitely got through.

[SpoonsForks]

@keenermarc ahh this whole video is really interesting. i've always wanted them to redo famous experiments but i know they're pretty harmful to people, so it would be impossible to do. (like the zimbardo prison experiment) thanks for the upload!