Gunnair Gunnair:
Nope, but kudos for honesty.
I don't think so. First of all, peoples' IQs don't really change until they get quite old, when they drop. You are actually smarter from about 10 to the end of your reproductive usefulness, at which point you start to get dumber.
Secondly, the entire basis of her argument was that when she was an undergrad she saw the same thing. Anecdotal stories are nice, but when you have PhD you should be offering up some actual evidence to support your conjecture.
Is age a factor? If you created a similar environment for 40-somethings would you get a riot? Why or why not? Those are the questions that should be asked.
Diminished sense of responsibility because the chance of being caught is perceived as low. Which is probably an accurate perception. People deemed, even for the moment, to have authority or to be in control, are followed.
I listened to Peter Gabriel's Milgram's 37 when I was a young teenager. I asked my mom what Milgram's 37 was and she didn't know but (being my mom) took me to the library. (Yes kids this was
before the Internet. Is Internet still capitalized?)
Milgram's 37 refers to a compliant 37 out of 40 subjcts in psychologist Milgram's Experimet 18. Milgram ran an experiment that brought volunteers in to shock subjects who wouldn't answer questions put to them. 37 out of 40 administered shocks. 65%--SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT--of the volunteers gave what they thought was a lethal shock to the subjects, whom they did not even know.
http://cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7article/article35.htm$1:
Why is it so many people obey when they feel coerced? Social psychologist Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative--even when acting against their own better judgment and desires.
We Do What We're Told lyrics
milgram's 37
we do what we're told
we do what we're told
we do what we're told
told to do
one doubt
one voice
one war
one truth
one dream
Peter Gabriel