(Russel Davis) A landmark study on human obedience that was conducted some 50 years ago has recently been replicated and showed little change in the outcome. The Milgram experiment, originally conducted by Stanley Milgram and his colleagues, was designed to test how people were willing to deliver electric shocks to another person if they were encouraged by a higher authority.
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by Russel Davis, January 9th. 2019
While no actual electric shocks were delivered during the experiment, many participants believed they were, in fact, shocking their peers. The experiment shows that under certain conditions, pressure from authority figures would eventually push people to carry out commands despite potentially harming another individual.
Researchers at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Poland have recently recreated the experiment to see what the results would look like if it happened in Central European countries that were previously part of the communist-run Soviet Union. “Our objective was to examine how high a level of obedience we would encounter among residents of Poland. It should be emphasized that tests in the Milgram paradigm have never been conducted in Central Europe. The unique history of the countries in the region made the issue of obedience towards authority seem exceptionally interesting to us,” the researchers wrote.
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Milgram revisited: The teacher-learner paradigm
The experiment was not recreated in full due to ethical considerations. Researchers recruited 80 participants — 40 men and 40 women — aged between 18 and 69, a vast majority of whom claimed to have never committed electrocution upon learning about the history of the experiment. Each participant was unknowingly paired with an actor, who played the part of the learner, while the study participant played the teacher.
The experiment was conducted in two neighboring rooms. One room was where the learner was hooked up to electrodes, giving the respondents an impression that the learner was to receive electric shocks. The other room was designated to the respondents. The teacher was given levers to control and was instructed to deliver electric shocks whenever the learner made a mistake. Prerecorded screams were played simultaneously when the shocks were delivered.
As the experiment proceeded, the facilitator would ask the respondents to intensify the electric shocks. Comments such as “please continue” and “you have no choice” were given when the participants appeared hesitant to deliver the shock. Researchers said the participants were given debriefing sessions following the experiment. “During this debriefing, [the] participants were told of the details of the procedure, apologized [to] for being deceived at the start of the experiment … and received an explanation of why it was done in that way,” researchers noted.
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Results show very little has changed since the infamous 1960s experiment
Data showed that some 90 percent of participants were willing to electrocute someone using the highest levels of shocks. However, the number of participants who refused to carry out electrocution was three times higher when the learner was a woman. However, the study’s sample size is too small to determine other possible reasons.
“It is exceptionally interesting that in spite of the many years which have passed since the original Milgram experiments, the proportion of people submitting themselves to the authority of [the] experimenter remains very high,” the researchers said. “In summary, it can be said that such a high level of obedience among participants, very similar to that attained in the 1960s in the original Milgram studies, is exceptionally fascinating,” the researchers added. (Related: Study proves 95% of people really are sheeple.)
“Our study has, yet again, illustrated the tremendous power of the situation the subjects are confronted with and how easily they can agree to things which they find unpleasant…half a century after Milgram’s original research into obedience to authority, a striking majority of subjects are still willing to electrocute a helpless individual,” said researcher Tomasz Grzyb.
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Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
The preceding article presents a little known yet critically important experiment conducted in the 20th century that reveals how easy it is to recruit a person into an insidious agenda. The fear of ostracization or abandonment is arguably one of the most primal fears. The amygdala is the brain center partially responsible for managing fear responses. Physical torture, such as electrical shocks, flaying, or other forms of extreme pain produce the same neurological responses as social abandonment. This means fear of being cast out of your social group can be one of the strongest motivators, equal to self-protection. The Deep State know all too well how powerful social acceptance is and use it against the people. All of this is revealed in stark detail in the above article. This is vitally important to understand because you will be forced to choose between compliance with the deep state and going against a social group. Failure to anticipate the strong responses you’ll feel by choosing the right thing could lead you to accidentally follow the Deep State. But with this knowledge in hand, greater levels of courage can be invoked. And most importantly, while we indeed do cast ourselves out of the ingroup aligned with the Deep State, when we deny our fellows or the Deep State in their requests of us, we align ourselves in the in-group of freedom-loving people. This is the same group that will survive this situation in prosperity and peace, provided enough people join the cause.
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Our brains are wired to ensure our survival. Social isolation often means death. People cannot survive on their own, even today. Statistics have been the same in this area for many years. Isolated folks have increased risk for heart disease and cancer straight off the bat. The experiment mentioned in this article is torturing people to get fairly predictable results. Nasty stuff.