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Essay / Analysis of Stanley Milgram's behavioral study on...
It is necessary, in a sense, for the common good. However, Baumrind's view of the experience is much more compelling. She points out the many flaws in Milgram's experiment. His first main point is that the experiences cause serious emotional problems. Although Baumrind has no evidence that the experiment caused emotional and physiological effects on the subjects, she quotes Milgram: "On one occasion we observed a seizure so violently convulsive that it was necessary to stop the experience” (quoted in Baumrind 422). ). Baumrind strongly believes that people should not be hurt, emotionally or physically, for the sake of an experience. Additionally, the experiment was very misleading, people didn't know exactly what they were doing. The main problem with the experiment is the ease with which Milgram can examine the results so deeply that he misses the problem of lying and manipulation, which is a real problem, not the problem.