#631 | The Dark Side of Psychology | The Milgram Experiment
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#631 | The Dark Side of Psychology | The Milgram Experiment

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 10, 202626 min

In 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram tested how far ordinary Americans would go when an authority figure told them to hurt someone. His disturbing experiment revealed the power of obedience and raised frightening questions about how easily good people can do terrible things. Adolf Eichmann's trial and the banality of evil Stanley Milgram studies obedience to authority at Yale Volunteers deceived with teacher and learner roles Shock machine with rising volts and scripted learner reactions Experimenter prompts encourage teachers to continue Sixty-five per cent gave the maximum 450-volt shock Variations test authority setting pro...

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Hello, hello, hello and welcome to English Learning for Curious Minds by Leonardo English, the show where you can listen to fascinating stories and learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving your English. I'm Alastair Budge and today It's the start of another three-part miniseries, this time on the dark side of psychology,

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where we'll look at three of the most famous and uncomfortable experiments in the history of the science of the mind. In today's episode, we'll look at the Milgram experiment, which sought to find out what ordinary people do when an authority figure tells them to do something terrible.

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In part 2, we'll turn to the work of Harry Harlow, the American psychologist whose disturbing experiments with baby monkeys changed our understanding of love. And in part 3, we'll travel to the psychiatric hospitals of 1970s America, where eight perfectly sane volunteers checked themselves in to see what would happen. Like all of our mini-series, parts 2 and

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