Posted by: rhysevans | October 18, 2008

The Milgram experiment

The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the subject believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an actor and confederate. The subjects believed that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual shocks, but in reality there were no shocks. Being separated from the subject, the confederate set up a tape recorder integrated with the electro-shock generator, which played pre-recorded sounds for each shock level.

The Milgram expertements link nicley to the artefact I WANTED to make because it looked at the the way we react differently to orders from people who look like they are in charge, I also liked looking at the Stansford experiment and wonderd why there was no film already based on the experiment because I thought the contect lends itself perfectly to the screen. Talking of my piece (kind of wasn’t but oh well) after talking to Nick I have decided to give up on the police idea and choose something a bit simpler. This means back to drawing board of ideas. hmmm

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