Reference Information:
Title: Opening Skinner's Box
Author: Lauren Slater
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (2008)
Summary: In the second chapter of Opening Skinner's Box, Slater discusses Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on authority and obedience. By using actors pretending to be in a shocked violently after the study subject was ordered by shock them, Milgram showed how Holocaust like behavior can be exhibited in over half the population.
Discussion: I enjoyed this article a little more than the first article. The moral and ethical dilemmas presented in this section were very thought provoking. I hope that if I were put in this same situation, I would not behave like their typical test subject.
No comments:
Post a Comment