And you're taking social psych? Wait, I knew that! *doh* I really enjoyed that class. Dr. Blass was always asking, "Dawn, have you ever given any thought to going to grad school to study social psychology??" Poor guy...he finally found some poor sap willing to transcribe all those tapes, and she was only interested in clinical/biopsych stuff. ;)
Was the study exactly the same as the Milgram experiment? I'm surprised that it passed the review board...though the Milgram study is largely decried for poor debriefings. IIrc, Milgram is the reason that we have review boards in the first place. ;)
I think that it's part of human nature to obey, vague and unscientific as that sounds. ;) But if these are the results in a country that values independent thought, imagine what they would be in places that place higher value on obedience! Or when the "teacher" is under duress, in fear for his life or that of his family. It kind of puts things into a different perspective, methinks. :^/
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Date: 2007-02-08 02:55 am (UTC)And you're taking social psych? Wait, I knew that! *doh* I really enjoyed that class. Dr. Blass was always asking, "Dawn, have you ever given any thought to going to grad school to study social psychology??" Poor guy...he finally found some poor sap willing to transcribe all those tapes, and she was only interested in clinical/biopsych stuff. ;)
Was the study exactly the same as the Milgram experiment? I'm surprised that it passed the review board...though the Milgram study is largely decried for poor debriefings. IIrc, Milgram is the reason that we have review boards in the first place. ;)
I think that it's part of human nature to obey, vague and unscientific as that sounds. ;) But if these are the results in a country that values independent thought, imagine what they would be in places that place higher value on obedience! Or when the "teacher" is under duress, in fear for his life or that of his family. It kind of puts things into a different perspective, methinks. :^/