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The Milgram experiments have been replicated many times in several different cultures. I wouldn't discount everything.
by peterashford 8y ago
The Milgram experiments have been replicated many times in several different cultures. I wouldn't discount everything.
- dalbasal 8y agoBut... it's taught alongside and on par with unproven theories, unreplicable expirements, and known to be fraudulent science. I mean, just because it's in a psychology textbook doesn't necessarily mean that's it's BS... But that's not a decent standard. Even astrology clears that bar.
- rusk 8y ago> The Milgram experiments have been replicated many times More recent critical analysis has poked a lot of holes in Milgram [0]. Important work no doubt but not quite the smoking gun it has been proclaimed to be. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinking-one-of-psychologys-most-infamous-experiments/384913/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinkin...
- neilobremski 8y agoI started reading this link and this sentence popped out at me: > It’s a phenomenon that’s been used to explain atrocities from the Holocaust to the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre to the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. This sounds an awful like the sentence in the Lifespan of a Lie: > It has been invoked to explain the massacre at My Lai during the Vietnam War, the Armenian genocide, and the horrors of the Holocaust. We seem to be using a lot of these experiments to explain the same things ...
- rusk 8y agoWell the backdrop to the Milgram experiment was actually WW2 and trying to understand what happened. It was a key motivation. It seems to me that a lot of the seminal social psychology studies happen around this time ...