To counteract the possibility of Demand characteristics and the fact his experiment was criticized for lacking ecological validity Milgram continued to replicate his experiment. The new variations of his experiment involved the teacher having to read out word pairs to the student, Milgram had a confederate initiate the shock, the outcome of this proved further evidence of people’s capabilities to obey to authority with 92.5% of people continuing onto the 450volts. However, despite Milgram replicating his experiment to avoid this, it can be argued otherwise. Orne and Holland (1972) argued that Milgram’s participants may have simply been trying to ‘be good participants’ and suggested Milgram’s work lacked experimental realism. This claim can be supported by some of the Volunteers claiming that they didn’t think the researcher would have let anyone come to harm. However many participants showed signs of stress, such as sweating, trembling and stuttering making it hard to suggested that they thought it was a fake
To counteract the possibility of Demand characteristics and the fact his experiment was criticized for lacking ecological validity Milgram continued to replicate his experiment. The new variations of his experiment involved the teacher having to read out word pairs to the student, Milgram had a confederate initiate the shock, the outcome of this proved further evidence of people’s capabilities to obey to authority with 92.5% of people continuing onto the 450volts. However, despite Milgram replicating his experiment to avoid this, it can be argued otherwise. Orne and Holland (1972) argued that Milgram’s participants may have simply been trying to ‘be good participants’ and suggested Milgram’s work lacked experimental realism. This claim can be supported by some of the Volunteers claiming that they didn’t think the researcher would have let anyone come to harm. However many participants showed signs of stress, such as sweating, trembling and stuttering making it hard to suggested that they thought it was a fake