Monday, December 12, 2016

the power of authority on individuals

The takeaway from the human experiments were: there are huge influence on human behavior when authority applies force. For the Stanley Milgrim Experiments people transferred their responsibility to the authority to output stronger shocks to the learners, in the Kitty Genovese case peoples’ relativeness to the case decreased as they noticed other spectators where also in the same situation, and for the Stanford prison experiment it showed the escalated behavior of people in charge of the prisoners by permission guaranteed by the authority. The accountability was taken away when the person knew the authority was present, and it certainly explained their irrational behavior. We could relate to this phenomenon with the daily situations we experience; like the moment when everyone submits their homework late then you also submit your work late too. In this case the individual's feeling of guilty is fades as they know other people hasn't submitted, and the individual's accountability and the responsibility transfers to it's compatriots and paralyze it's duty to submit their work. I'm not saying it's acceptable to submit work, yet I found it interesting it's relevance to the human experiments.

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