Group #2: Please post your questions here for the following articles
-“The Perils of Obedience” p. 692
-“Group Minds” p.723
Make sure you post two questions (1 question for each article)
Group #2: Please post your questions here for the following articles
-“The Perils of Obedience” p. 692
-“Group Minds” p.723
Make sure you post two questions (1 question for each article)
12:42 pm - 2-21-2013
For “The Perils of Obedience”, why do you think that the experimenters chose to have other people “shock” someone to figure out obedience and not something else?
For “Group Minds”, why do you think that we are born into groups and keep them as we grow and develop?
4:53 pm - 2-21-2013
“The Perils of Obedience”-If you were on of the “Teachers” in Milgrams experiment and inflicted the highest voltage shock,how do you think feel when the experiment was over?
What effects do you think it would it have on you?
“Group Minds”-in the article it says “in a group we think as the group does” Do you agree and believe that you think the same way your friends and teammates do because you are involved in the same group as them?
9:09 pm - 2-21-2013
For “The Perils of Obedieance”, do you think it is human nature to inflict harm on another person, or is it human nature to obey authority?
For “Group Minds”, are you more likely to go along with the mindset of a group, or maintain an individual opinion as a member of a group?
10:59 pm - 2-21-2013
For “The Perils of Obedience”, Do the outcomes of the different experiments make you angry, glad, or nonchalant?
For “Group Minds”, After reading this article, are you determined to be apart from the crowd or do you really not care?
1:08 am - 2-22-2013
For “The Perils of Obedience”, what sets apart people like Gretchen Brandt that refuse to participate in the milgram experiment and people like Fred Prozi that willingly “kill” someone in the experiment, simply because they’re following orders? What factors drive people to rebel against authority?
For “Group Minds”, do you personally feel that when you’re in a group setting, you’re more inclined to believe whatever everyone else in the group believes, or do you stick to your own beliefs?
8:25 am - 2-22-2013
In “The Perils of Obedience” , the article states that obedience drops off sharply when the orders are given by phone, rather than face to face. Why does physical prescence of authority make the “teacher” more likely to go on with the experiment?
For “Group Minds”, “When we are in a group, we tend to think as the group does.” Why is it harder to maintain an individual opinion when in a group?