Book Review of Behind the Shock Machine
2015; MedCrave Group; Volume: 4; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.15406/jpcpy.2015.04.00211
ISSN2373-6445
Autores ResumoHowever, I am guilty of not pursuing a more in-depth review of Milgrim's work.Behind the Shock Machine summarizes the impact Milgrim's studies had on his subjects, who were duped more often than not into, so they thought, hurting fellow human beings.That the hurting was sham did not undo the fact that Milgrim's subjects believed they were hurting another when they obeyed him.In the long run, this troubled them greatly having succumbed to what was later to be morbidly seen as "being a good Nazi following orders."Most suffered from his experiments in retrospect, especially when "obedience" was seen to be linked to Adolph Eichmann's convincing German citizens to hurt other people, especially Jews.One finds that Milgrim's so-called "subjects" were turned into "objects."Milgrim tricked people into thinking they were somehow doing good by following orders, even if hurting another (Sieg Heil!).
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