18 May 2009
Link to paper, here, and a recent re-enactment.
bansy wrote:Movie clip : Not really on spirituality but social psychology :• Obedience - The Milgram experiment by Stanley Milgram.
The Milgram experiment was a series of famous scientific studies of social psychology, intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who instructs the participant to do something that may conflict with the participant's personal conscience.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.