The screams also became more intense, but if the teacher seemed to hesitate to administer a shock, the experimenter would prod the individual with comments, such as, "Please continue," "It is absolutely essential that you continue," or "You have no choice - you must go on." Prerecorded screams of pain played when the shock was delivered, according to the study.Īs the experiment proceeded, the teacher was told to increase the intensity of the shocks with each subsequent mistake that the "learner" made. The teacher was told to administer an electronic shock to the learner whenever the learner made a mistake. In the other room, the participant (who thought he or she was taking on the role of the "teacher") was given levers to control, and told that the levers determined the intensity of the shock that the "learner" would receive. In one, the learner/actor was hooked up to electrodes, to give the study participant the impression that the learner would be shocked.
The experiment took place in two neighboring rooms. Both of the slips said "teacher," but in each case, the actor announced that his or her slip said "learner." The learner's job was to memorize certain associations between syllables: The teacher was given syllables to read, and the learner was supposed to reply to each syllable by giving a specific answer.Īt this point, the participant was then told that she or he could stop the experiment at any point, but would still be paid for the time. In the experiment, each person was paired up with an actor and asked to select slips of paper that would dictate each person's role. The participants were told that the experiment was focused on "the impact of punishments on learning and memory processes," according to the study. They recruited 40 men and 40 women, who were all unfamiliar with the original experiments. In the study, the researchers designed an experiment that was similar to original Milgram experiments. The research was published today (March 14) in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. The leaders of the region placed people there under communist rule and demanded "strict obedience to authority," making the region a good place to test such obedience, the researchers wrote in the study.
In the new study, the researchers noted that the Milgram experiments had never been conducted in central European countries, which were once a part of the Soviet Union.
In other words, people think that they would say no to an authority figure who ordered them to shock a person. "Upon learning about Milgram's experiments, a vast majority of people claim that 'I would never behave in such a manner,'" study co-author Tomasz Grzyb, a social psychologist at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland, said in a statement.
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