2 sociological experiments that reveal our sinister side

Are you a psychopath, someone indifferent or perhaps you would commit atrocities following orders from superiors? These 2 sociological experiments explore and reveal the darkest and sinister side of the human being.

2 sociological experiments that reveal our sinister side

Yield to authority

In 1961 the Nazi colonel Adolf Eichmann was found guilty of Poland's well-known final solution.His sentence was death; However, before carrying it out, the colonel said that the did not know what he was doing , he was simply following orders from superiors.Could this be true? Any human being could commit any crime or damage with the excuse of following orders?

The psychologist Stanley Milgram , of Yale University , I conducted a controversial experiment to find an answer to this question .A teacher, a student and a researcher were those involved in it, of which the teacher was the only one who did not know the true research purpose.

2 sociological experiments that reveal our sinister side

The researcher met with the student and the teacher and made them believe that he had randomized the roles.As in theory the experiment was about memory and learning, every time the student was wrong the teacher had to press a button that would produce an electric shock to the student and increase the level of discharge.The student pretended terrible pain and sometimes even a coma.

The amazing thing about the study is that, although most of the participants (teachers) were very uncomfortable and worried about the student, they always ended yielding to the authority (the researcher) and continued with the electric shocks. 65% came to apply the maximum discharge and none refused to apply discharges that exceed 300 volts.

2.Are you a psychopath?

Harvard University psychologist, Joshua Greene , devoted himself to studying psychopaths for years determine their moral dilemmas and level of empathy.In this sense, one of their experiments consisted in raising two options:

-The first one suggests that five people are about to be run over by a train but if you squeeze a button the train is diverted to another lane in which only one person is found.

2 sociological experiments that reveal our sinister side

-The second option is for a train to go without control to five people who are on the tracks.This time you are on a bridge, just behind a stocky man, and what you do is push the man to the tracks so that the train It deviates when I overwhelm it and thus save the other 5 people.

What would you do? 90% of people would refuse to push the man, since that would mean actively participating in a homicide, so they would opt for the first option. The remaining 10% are calculating people and that may seem very common but have channeled their psychopathic skills in other activities, for example: running a business.

If you liked this article, we invite you to continue reading more about: What would you do if you had the power? The experiment of the "Stanford jail"

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