Experimenter
Director: Michael Almereyda
< Experimenter> is based on true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram. His curiosity and enthusiasm drove him conducted a famous radical behavior experiment to observe participants reaction towards authority while administering electric shock to strangers. Throughout the research, 65 percents of participants complete the given task ( administer fatal level of electric shock to stranger) as they choose to obey to authority while they confirmed they do not have to take responsibility for any consequences. Most of them hesitate and intend to stop the experiment while hearing voice of stranger's suffering, but then choose to continue participants when they are request by researcher to continue. This research surprisingly found that most of the people think that they will immediately stop the experiment and exclaimed that participants who continue giving electric shock is cruel and no humanity. Participants actually did not know that they reaction have been observed and recorded by the other researcher. If they do, results might be different as people tend to show their good characteristic to public.
After this research published, some of the participants felt uncomfortable and stressful towards what they done to the stranger even though they know that there is actually no electric shock. Besides, many professions tried to disapprove this experiment to publish as they exclaimed that it is unethical. There are actually many researchers used to been criticised but this is worthwhile as their studies contribute a lot knowledge in academics field. Many researchers later also replicate Milgram's experiment and they got the similar results too.
If I have a chance to conduct a social experiment without any considerations, I would like to randomly pair up two strangers in university and ask them try their best to truly treat each other as their best friends for three weeks. Motivation that drive me to conduct this experiment is because students used to stay with their familiar friends and didn't enlarge their social relationship. Besides, some people might have bias before get to know someone, this might be an opportunity to reduce bias and they might find someone who actually know them well.
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