Human Behavior

Documentary

By Alejandra
Muñoz
 The Milgram experiment on obedience to
authority figures was a series of social psychology
experiments conducted by Yale University
psychologist Stanle Milgram, which measured the
willingness of study participants to obey an authority
figure who instructed them to perform acts that
conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram
first described his research in 1963 in an article
published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology, and later discussed his findings in greater
depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An
Experimental View.
 Questions
 What would you do in extreme situations? How do
you think you would react?
 I really don’t know what I would do in these case,
mind is unpredictable and I have never been in a
extreme situation.
 I think I wouldn’t react, It’s hard to think about
something that has never happened to me.
 Why would four friends watch their
friend die when they could of help?

 Because they were scared and didn’t know

how to react. They weren’t prepared for a
extreme situation, but if they had reacted
differently they would save their friend’s life.
Why do good people don’t do anything
or act incorrectly in severe and intense
situations?

 Because many people are paralyzed in thede

situations.
 How could professionals and people
with values suddenly descend into
barbarous behavior?

 Everyone is different, some people tend to be

aggressive.
What is the line between good and bad
behavior? Can anybody cross it? Why?

 I think the line is when you hurt somebody or

affect other people.
 Everybody can cross it, but they mustn’t do it.
 What is human cruelty?

 Human cruelty is an attack against humans,

where rights of people are crushed.
How is it possible that people could act
in such inhuman ways?

 That is a question that I’ve always asked

myself, but i think that people are sick and
they don’t realice of what they do.
 What is obedience to authority?

 Obedience to authority is the fear what we feel

avoiding suffer consequences.
 What do you think about the
experiments of the documentary?

 I think that these experiments are really

strange, it shows how incredible is our mind.