Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!memqa!oreo.berkeley.edu!nehaniv From: nehaniv@oreo.berkeley.edu (Chrystopher Lev Nehaniv) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Milgram's 37 Message-ID: <1991Apr12.112807.5289@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 12 Apr 91 11:28:07 GMT References: Sender: nehaniv@math.berkeley.edu Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Lines: 22 Approved: Love-Hounds@hayes.ims.alaska.edu In article TREADWAY@MPS.OHIO-STATE.EDU writes: >Subject: Milgram's 37 > >About Milgram's 37: It is actually a home-made alcoholic beverage. >Just kidding...Honestly, Milgram was an experimental psychologists that >persuaded 37 subjects to painfully, even lethally, shock strangers - an >electric chair type set-up. He was basically studying the obedience of humans >to authority figures. Needless to say, this experiment was the basis of many >ethics in research discussions. > Have fun, Joel Actually the `shocked' strangers weren't being shocked, but were actors acting shocked. The ethics brouhaha was about deception of the subjects and their being made to do something apparently immoral. -X -- C.L. Nehaniv (nehaniv@math.berkeley.edu) | " Things fall apart. Dept. of Mathematics | It's scientific." UC Berkeley, CA 94720 | -D. Byrne