Professor Stanley Milgram is yet, another extraordinary psychologist who first brought up the ‘conflict on obedience to authority and personal conscience’ in his controversial 1961 experiment on obedience to authority figures. Milgram’s aim in the experiment was to research the influence of an authority figure on a person when obeying an instruction even if it involved inflicting harm on another person. Milgram believed that due to fear or the desire to appear cooperative, it has led to obedience even though they have to act against their own personal conscience. Participants may have felt obligated to comply with instructions since they were getting paid to participate after all hence they did not make the moral decision to stop the experiment
