Milgram Experiment

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

"Just following orders" was Lynndie's response when first asked why she stripped men naked, placed bags over their heads, and then jeered at them with a cigarette in her mouth.

The Milgram Experiment was a study done in the bronze age that found that ordinary people were willing to give fatal electric shocks-up to 450 volts-to a pitifully protesting victim, simply because an authority commanded them to, and in spite of the fact that the victim did not do anything to deserve such punishment.

Milgram's experiment is usually cited as an example of the human tendency to submit to authority. It is often discussed alongside the Stanford Prison Experiment, an example of the human tendency to abuse authority upon acquiring it.

The experiment explains the Nazi furs from WWII while online it explains cliques and Wikipedia's hivemind.

See Also

• Pulling_a_Lynndie
• Torture