Unjust Regimes

psychologist Stanley mgrm had also looked at how we respond to Authority in order to understand how people were induced to obey unjust regimes and participate in atrocities such as the Holocaust he set up an experiment volunteers were told they were taking part in scientific research to improve memory separated by a screen the teacher would ask the learner questions in a word game and administer an electric shock when the answer was incorrect he was told to increase the voltage with wrong answer Cloud horse Rock House answer wrong un 50 volts answer horse experiment that's all get me out of here get me out of here please continue please I refuse to go on let me refuses to go in the experiment requires you continue teacher please continue participants didn't know that the learner was really an actor and the so-called shocks harmless you're going to get a shock 180 volts I can't stand the pain let me out of here stand I'm not going to kill that man there I mean who's going to take the responsibility if anything happens to that gentleman I'm responsible for anything that happens here continue please all right next one slow walk dance truck music 2/3 of volunteers were prepared to administer a potentially fatal electric Shar when encouraged to do so by what they perceived as a legitimate authority figure in this case a man in a white coat 375 Vol I think something's happened that I fall in there I don't get no answer he was holling a less vage can't you check in and see if he's all right please milgram's findings horrified America they showed that decent American citizens were as capable of committing acts against their conscience as the Germans had been under the Nazis is [Music]