William Lindsey :toad:
It's being reported now that Trump's approval rating is the highest it has ever been.
I watch, unsurprised at the widespread approval of my fellow Americans as the federal government is dismantled, websites taken down, Black and female history erased from government websites, trans people erased, foreign-born people are targeted, hounded, rounded up, shipped out, economic policies that will inflict huge pain on us are enacted, etc.
Rich Felker
@wdlindsy Wasn't the Milgram experiment debunked?
William Lindsey :toad:
As I watch, I think of what the Milgram experiment proved about us over 60 decades ago.
A majority of us will, told by an authority figure to harm someone else, willingly comply with the order. Even (or especially?) when we witness the pain we're inflicting….
Milgram was brutally attacked for publicizing the results of his experiments.
#Trump #MilgramExperiment #authoritarianism #dictator #cruelty
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short haul longspur
@dalias @wdlindsy from a keynote address at an annual conference of the British Psychological Society:
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/why-almost-everything-you-know-about-milgram-wrong
"....overall 58 per cent of people actually disobeyed.....when we consider the goings-on during the actual experiment and look at the experimenter's four prods to encourage participants to continue, they reveal that people really do not like following orders."
Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈⧖
@muddyfields @dalias @wdlindsy The Milgram experiment has been thoroughly debunked: https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/2019-letexier.pdf
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