{"id":1608,"date":"2011-08-17T16:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T21:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"In his Cornerstone talk Dr. Beck discussed the results of Stanley Milgram\u2019s famous Obedience to Authority study. You\u2019ll recall that in the study Milgram observed that about 65% of the normal population would administer potentially lethal shocks over the p"},"modified":"2011-08-20T23:44:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T04:44:43","slug":"just-doing-my-job-the-milgram-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef12\/spotlight-schedule\/multiple-perspectives\/just-doing-my-job-the-milgram-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Doing My Job – The Milgram Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his Cornerstone talk Dr. Beck discussed the results of Stanley Milgram\u2019s famous Obedience to Authority study. You\u2019ll recall that in the study Milgram observed that about 65% of the normal population would administer potentially lethal shocks over the protests of the person being hurt.\u00a0\u00a0 For more see the Wikipedia article on the Milgram experiment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can watch a modern, point for point, replication of the Milgram Study conducted for a British reality show here.<\/p>\n

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Discussion Questions:<\/h3>\n
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  1. A great deal of the unethical behavior done in the world is done people who, in retrospect, say that they were \u201cjust doing their job.\u201d If that\u2019s the case, how would an ACU education look if it were to prevent this from happening to our graduates? That is, what would ACU students need to think about and experience, even if it falls outside their major?<\/li>\n
  2. One of the things you hear college students say, at ACU and across the country, is this: \u201cWhat does this class have to do with my major?\u201d How might that attitude be a sort of \u201cfirst step\u201d down that path to the \u201cI was just doing my job\u201d temptation illustrated in the Milgram study? How would a college education look at it tried to push against this temptation?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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