A researcher, Stanley Milgram, wondered how far individuals would go in following commands. In 1974 he started a series of experiments. Describe the research methods used, along with the findings. In 1974 Stanley Milgram conducted the classic study on obedience to authority. The study examined how far individuals would be willing to go and were asked whether they would be able to deliver increasingly devastating electric shocks to another human being, as they had been asked to do by the professor in charge of the experiment . The aftermath of the Holocaust and the events leading up to World War II left the world stunned by the actions of the Nazi German army and the surrounding territories it acquired that emerged during the Eichman trials. Eichman, a high-ranking Nazi Party official, was tried for war crimes against humanity. The question is, “Could it be that Eichman and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were simply following orders? Could we call them all accomplices? It was Stanley Milgram who answered the call and performed a series of experiments on the obedience of authorities. When When it came to selecting participants for the study, Milgram considered using graduates from Yale, which was a nearby university. However, he felt that the students were not an ideal group as they were all very intelligent and had some familiarity with psychological experimentation. Milgram therefore felt it was more appropriate to include subjects on a larger scale, and therefore decided to use the New Haven community of 30,000 people, as this provided him with a wide range of individuals who all came from... .in the center of the card......n will always be a soldier who has been ordered to kill another person responsible for the killing, or the officer who ordered it since the soldier is simply following orders in life everyone follows orders, whether at school, work or home, people in general will always be obedient to authority. Bibliography Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority, 1974 Stephen P. Robbins, Organizational Behavior 9th Edition 2001 Obedience to Authority: http: //irregulartimes.com/obedienceto.html [Accessed 03/22/2005]The Experiment: http:// www.age-of-the-sage.org/psychology/milgram_obedience_experiment.html [Accessed 22/03/2005]Social Influence: http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/index.html [Accessed 03/21/2005] Milgram Experiment: http://www.new-life.net/milgram.htm [ Accessed 21/03/2005]