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Related: About this forumExperimenter Official Trailer 1 (2015) on Milgram study. Film opened October 16.
Experimenter Official Trailer 1 (2015) - Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder Movie HD
Published on Jul 23, 2015
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think theyre delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects dont stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because theyve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmanns trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into peoples tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) stands by him through it all. EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgrams whirring mind in this bracing portrait of a brilliant man whose conscience and creative spirit continues to be resonant, poignant, and inspirational.
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Experimenter Official Trailer 1 (2015) on Milgram study. Film opened October 16. (Original Post)
proverbialwisdom
Oct 2015
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Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking Obedience Study - the popular myths about
jtuck004
Oct 2015
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Neoma
(10,039 posts)1. Good, this should be a study known to popular culture.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)2. How Republicans get people to vote against their best interests.
They just tell them to and the sheep oblige. What a shock.
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Looks like a great movie.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)3. Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking Obedience Study - the popular myths about
this study seem to be repeated here.
One should do more reading than that offered by the standard psych 101 text, lest one gets the wrong idea...
Behind the Shock Machine
The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
by Gina Perry
...
"On turning from an admirer of Milgram to a critic
"That was an unexpected outcome for me, really. I regarded Stanley Milgram as a misunderstood genius who'd been penalized in some ways for revealing something troubling and profound about human nature. By the end of my research I actually had quite a very different view of the man and the research."
...
"Over 700 people took part in the experiments. When the news of the experiment was first reported, and the shocking statistic that 65 percent of people went to maximum voltage on the shock machine was reported, very few people, I think, realized then and even realize today that that statistic applied to 26 of 40 people. Of those other 700-odd people, obedience rates varied enormously. In fact, there were variations of the experiment where no one obeyed."
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On the problem that one of social psychology's most famous findings cannot be replicated
"I think it leaves social psychology in a difficult situation. ... it is such an iconic experiment. And I think it really leads to the question of why it is that we continue to refer to and believe in Milgram's results. I think the reason that Milgram's experiment is still so famous today is because in a way it's like a powerful parable. It's so widely known and so often quoted that it's taken on a life of its own. ... This experiment and this story about ourselves plays some role for us 50 years later.""...
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/28/209559002/taking-a-closer-look-at-milgrams-shocking-obedience-study