Cons González
Maggie Sloan
Academic Writing
Nov 22, 2022
Behavior Asch
Using alcohol at parties “Apparently the sheer
or smoking (specially weight of numbers or
vape). authority sufficed to
change opinions, even
when no arguments for
the opinions themselves
were provided.” (para. 5)
If you are in a party where
someone is offering you
alcohol or drugs, and your
friends try to convince
you, then you are under a
lot of pressure to decide
whether you want to drink
or not. Normally, we are
more likely to follow
others especially when
there’s a lot of people,
instead of following our
opinions and ideas.
Copying someone else’s “The assumptions are that
work. people submit uncritically
and painlessly to external
manipulations by
suggestion or prestige,
and that any given idea or
value can be “sold” or
“unsold” without
reference to its merits.”
(para. 7)
It is assumed that people
accept outside control
without question and
painlessly. That is why if
you are under pressure to
make the decision to copy
someone else's work, it
Milgram
“The most far-reaching
consequence is that the person
feels responsible to the authority
directing him but feels no
responsibility for the content of
the actions that the authority
prescribes… the subordinate
person feels shame or pride
depending on how adequately he
has performed the actions called
by authority.” (para. 108)
When we are under pressure and
need to make a decision, all we
care about is making "the
authority" feel good about your
decision, the problem is that we
feel responsible to the authority
“The essence of obedience is that
a person comes to view himself
as the instrument for carrying out
another person’s wishes, and he
therefore no longer regards
himself as responsible for his
actions.” (para. 108)
If I copy someone else's work
because someone "forced" or
"convinced" her, then we, as in
those who have no parents, can’t
come, etc, are blindly obeying
and for the simple fact of fulfilling
their wishes.
Zimbardo
“It was real and they
were fighting to keep
their identity. But we
were always there to
show them who was
boss.” (para. 22)
When your friends are
forcing you or putting a
lot of pressure on you
to make a decision
between taking or not
taking, you are
generally struggling
mentally to decide one
of the two options, but
in the end the ideas
that our friends
imposed win, so we do
what they want us to
do.
“”What made the
experience most
depressing for me was
the fact that we were
continually called upon
to act in a way that just
was contrary to what I
really feel inside..””
(para. 38)
Genuinely, I don't like
copying at all, but there
are times when I do it,
for the simple fact of
keeping the other
person happy. I feel
bad doing it since it's
not my job, so it
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Maggie Sloan
Academic Writing
Nov 22, 2022

becomes difficult to get deserves to be rated by

out of there, thanks to the person who did it.
manipulation by "external
people".
Criticizing people “Most of these studies “The subjects do not derive “Slowly their prisoners
because my friends do. had substantially the same satisfaction form inflicting pain, became resigned to
result: confronted with but they often like the feeling their fate and even
opinions contrary to their they get from pleasing the behaved in ways that
own, many subjects experimenter. They are proud of actually helped to
apparently shifted their doing a good job, obeying the justify their
judgements in the experimenter under difficult dehumanizing
direction of the views of circumstances.” (para. 100) treatment at the hands
the majorities or the of the guards.” (para.
experts.” (para. 5) 28)

Changing the way I talk “As long as the subject “In the situation we have studied,“The guards had to
or the words I use. had anyone on his side, he subjects have precisely the handle the rebellion
was almost invariably opposite view of their actions— themselves, and what
independent, but as soon namely, they see them as they did was starting to
as he found himself alone, originating in the motives of behold… They got a fire
the tendency to conform some other person.” (para. 110) extinguisher that shot a
to the majority rose tea of skin-chilling
abruptly.” (para. 26) carbon dioxide…, and
generally began to
harass and intimidate
the prisoners.” (para.
23-24)
Working harder. “Apparently the sheer “It becomes vital, therefore, to “Most of these studies
weight of numbers or compare the subject’s had substantially the
authority sufficed to performance when he is under same result:
change opinions, even orders and when he is allowed to confronted with
when no arguments for choose the shock level… the great opinions contrary to
the opinions themselves majority of people delivered very their own, many
were provided.” (para. 5) low, usually painless, shocks subjects apparently
when the choice was explicitly up shifted their
It's very interesting how to them.” (para. 93-95) judgements in the
when you're alone, direction of the views
somehow (or at least me) We are completely alone, our of the majorities or the
my brain shuts down and I way of working completely experts.”(para. 5)
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Maggie Sloan
Academic Writing
Nov 22, 2022
don't want to do what I
have to deliver the next
day, but when there are
more people involved,
then that's where you feel
the need to work harder
because everyone is
working.
Changing who I am when “The assumptions are
I’m with different that people submit
people. uncritically and painlessly
to external manipulations
by suggestion or prestige,
and that any given idea or
value can be “sold” or
“unsold” without
reference to its merits.”
(para. 7)
We submit uncritically or
without even questioning
ourselves the good or
wrong. So whenever I
change my personality,
I’m actually doing it
unconsciously because I
know how to treat each
one of them.
Breaking rules or doing “As long as the subject
risky things. had anyone on his side, he
was almost invariably
independent, but as soon
as he found himself alone,
the tendency to conform
to the majority rose
changes when we are alone, but
when you realize that you are one
of the few who are not working,
then you feel the need to get to
work.
“The problem of obedience is not
wholly psychological. The form
and shape of society and the way
it is developing have much to do
with it.” (para. 114)
Obedience does not necessarily
have to be based only on the
mind and how we behave, but
also has a lot to do with how a
society is formed and educated. If
I changed my personality daily, it
would not only be based on how I
am behaving psychologically, but
also on how we act physically
towards other people.
“The most far-reaching
consequence is that the person
feels responsible to the authority
directing him but feels no
responsibility for the content of
the actions that the authority
prescribes… the subordinate
I find it very interesting
how the vast majority
in a group of people
can change your
opinion simply because
of the pressure they
feel.
“He had to be
persuaded that he was
not a prisoner at all,
that the others were
also just students, that
this was just and
experiment and not a
prison and the prison
staff were on.” (para.
42)
The truth is, I do
change a lot when I'm
with different groups of
people, but I don't do it
consciously, I only
know how I should
behave with certain
people. And I think this
is a negative pressure
but at the same time
positive, since you
don't necessarily have
to change to be a bad
person.
“Our guards were told
that they must
maintain “law and
order” in this prison,
that they were
cautioned about the
seriousness and
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Maggie Sloan
Academic Writing
Nov 22, 2022
abruptly.” (para. 26)
Not expressing my “He is placed in a position
opinions (fear of being in which while he is
rejected) actually giving the correct
answers, he finds himself
unexpectedly in a minority
of one, opposed by a
unanimous and arbitrary
majority with respect to a
clear and simple fact.”
(para. 22)
The simple fact of being
surrounded by my friends
makes me not want to
comment on those things
that matter to me or that I
find interesting for the
simple fact of not knowing
how they will react and
how the comments they
make will make me feel.
person feels shame or pride
depending on how adequately he
has performed the actions called
by authority” (para. 108)
“This is perhaps, the most
fundamental lesson of our study:
ordinary people, simply doing
their jobs, and without any
particular hostility on their part,
can become agents in a terrible
destructive process.” (para. 97)
Sometimes I think that those
who manipulate or criticize
others do not realize what they
are doing, so they become part of
an integration process since your
interest is not inclined to support
someone else.
potential dangers of
the situation they were
about to enter.” (para.
18)
“The prison of fear
constructed in the
delusions of the
paranoid is no less
confining or less real
than the cell that every
shy person erects to
limit his own freedom
in anxious anticipation
of being ridiculed and
rejected by his guards
—often guards of his
own making.” (para.
62)
I believe that we
ourselves are our
destroyers. Somehow,
not everyone can make
their own decisions
without being rejected
by friends or even
random people.