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The Experiment
Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist, carried out an
experiment considered to be one of the most controversial and
unethical in the history of psychology, known as the Milgram
experiment on obedience. This experiment aimed to find out
the eect of authority and ones own conscience on obedience.
Ethical Considerations
A major ethics code was broken with this experiment -
deception. The subjects didnt know of the confederates
involvement in the experiment, leading them to believe they
were actually harming the learner with the shocks.
Justification
Stanley Milgram justified his use of deception by saying that
illusion is used when necessary in order to set the stage for the
revelation of certain dicult-to-get-at-truths.
There are cases where breaking the rule of deception and other
ethics codes can be justified. If it is concluded that there is no
way it will ever negatively impact the participant, and all
measures have been taken to ensure that, and if the experiment
conducted can greatly benefit society, then it is justifiable.
Experiments which can totally damage someones life can never
be justified in the name of science.
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his-experiment-really-unethical/