The reason Joshua decided to stop the experiment was because he thought he had a heart problem. In terms of Joshua’s background, he was in the army and took part in World War II. Although the army carries the connotation of obedience, Slate believes that “ how a subject acts in the laboratory does not necessarily generalize to how he or she will act in situations outside the laboratory, which is a whole different” (53). The other subject that Slater talks to is a person with the code name of Jacob Plumfield. He was one of the volunteers that obeyed the entire experiment. The experiment forever changed Jacob as it “caused me [him] to confront my [his] own compliance and really struggle with it” (59). After the experiment, Jacob came out and also understood how pathetically vulnerable “I [he] was to authority” (59). Milgram’s experiments were very controversial, resulting in many critics and detractors of his work such as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Ultimately, Stanley Milgram lost his legitimacy as a psychologist and had a hard time picking up a new
The reason Joshua decided to stop the experiment was because he thought he had a heart problem. In terms of Joshua’s background, he was in the army and took part in World War II. Although the army carries the connotation of obedience, Slate believes that “ how a subject acts in the laboratory does not necessarily generalize to how he or she will act in situations outside the laboratory, which is a whole different” (53). The other subject that Slater talks to is a person with the code name of Jacob Plumfield. He was one of the volunteers that obeyed the entire experiment. The experiment forever changed Jacob as it “caused me [him] to confront my [his] own compliance and really struggle with it” (59). After the experiment, Jacob came out and also understood how pathetically vulnerable “I [he] was to authority” (59). Milgram’s experiments were very controversial, resulting in many critics and detractors of his work such as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Ultimately, Stanley Milgram lost his legitimacy as a psychologist and had a hard time picking up a new