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Donna Abbott:
How do you justify the deception?
Stanley Milgram:
I like to think of it as illusion, not deception. Semantics, you may say, but illusion, you know, has a revelatory function, as in a play. Illusion can set the stage for revelation, to reveal certain difficult-to-get-at truths.
Donna Abbott:
But still, when you go to see a play, you pay for a ticket. You know you're seeing a play. These people didn't know it wasn't real. You tricked them.
Stanley Milgram:
"Hello, today we'll be doing an experiment about blind obedience to malevolent authority. I'd like for you to pretend that this machine is delivering painful shocks to a person in the other room." How truthful do you think that would be?
Donna Abbott:
But if you think of it, really, *you* were delivering shocks to your subjects. Psychological shocks.
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How do you justify the deception
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I like to think of it as illusion not deception
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Semantics you may say but illusion you know
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has a revelatory function as in a play
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Illusion can set the stage for revelation
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to reveal certain difficult to get at truths
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But still when you go to see a play you pay for a ticket
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You know you're seeing a play
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These people didn't know it wasn't real
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You tricked them
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Hello today we'll be doing an experiment about
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blind obedience to malevolent authority
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I'd like for you to pretend that this machine is delivering
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painful shocks to a person in the other room
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How truthful do you think that would be
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But if you think of it really you were delivering shocks
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to your subjects Psychological shocks
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Timestamp in movie: 00h 40m 52s
Uploaded: 07 December, 2022
Genres: drama, history
Summary: Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.