In 1963 at Yale University, Stanley Milgram held an experiment to test the relationship between obedience to authority and the personal conscience. Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment was one of the many experiments that caused the gathering of the APA, because of its lack of ethics and an analysis of the experiment provides information that could justify for the genocide acts of World War II.
The experiment included 40 male participants who drew straws which determined whether they were the learner or the experimenter. Only this was rigged so that the participant was always the experimenter instead of it being random and thinking they had a choice. They were also introduced to Milgram who was head of this experiment. There were two rooms that were used for the experiment. One room was used for the experimenter and the teacher to administer the electric shock through …show more content…
The experimenter, Milgram, first asked the teacher to please continue, then states that the experiment requires them to continue, after that milgram says that it is essential for the teacher to continue and lastly he tells them that they have no other choice than to continue. Stanley Milgram's experiment provided essential insight on the reason why the acts of genocide of World War II were committed (Milgram). This final stage of the experiment goes against the ethical code of the volunteers right to withdraw from the experiment. This ethics code means the participant has the right to backout of the experiment at any point (Ethical). Milgram would have broken this code when he refused to let any of the participants who wanted to stop to stop the experiment. Milgram did argue that the denial of ending the experiment was crucial If the ethical code of the participants right to withdraw was in place when the experiment was conducted Milgram would have broken it and his experiment would have been