Running Head: PSYCHOLOGY Name of Student: Course Name: Course Instructor: Date of Submission: Running Head: PSYCHOLOGY Article Question Ian Nicholson, the writer of ‘Torture at Yale: Experimental subjects, laboratory torment and the “rehabilitation” of Milgram’s “Obedience to Authority’ discredits the work by Milgram ‘Obedience to Authority’ by punching holes into how the research was conducted and the resultant results. The writer avers that the extent of his debriefing procedures, the harm done to the participants and the risk posed by the experiment compromised his ethical justification. He explains this by bringing to our attention that Milgram agreed that his participants were operating in confusion and uncertainty. They had been told that there was no physical harm or tissue damage that could occur to their bodies. The writer points out the premise on which Milgram’s experiments were based on of normalization of torment among experimenters has received relatively little consideration. This paper has opened my eyes and I agree with the writer that it was wrong for Milgram to make the participants believe that they were participating in something benign ...
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