Critque of Diana Baumrind on Stanley Milgram
Diana Baumrind’s “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience” argues that subjects in psychological experiments need to be treated with respect. Baumrind states that Milgram was not treating his subjects with respect because he was deceiving them. ... Baumrind’s critique of Milgram’s experiment is cogent. Milgram’s experiment was to test human obedience to orders. ... Baumrind wrote her critique to show how fell Milgram’s experiment was. ... In Milgram’s experiment, neither the subject’s security nor self-esteem was protected. ... Milgram himself said that the experiment brought most subjects almost to the brink of a nervous breakdown, yet he felt that a friendly meeting at the end of the experiment could relieve any and all tension. Baumrind says, “It would be interesting to know what sort of procedures could dissipate the type of emotional disturbance just described.