The podcasts focusing on several experiments and how shocking the results were. The Stanley Milgram experiment was the most interesting in my opinion. During this experiment, a student (an actor) is placed in a chair where they are strapped down and attach to a shock machine. A teacher (a volunteer) would ask questions and if answered wrong the student will be electrocuted with the volt being raised with each wrong answer. Even when the student screamed of wanting to stop, the teacher still continued as per the request of the experimenter. This happened in most of the experiments, even when the student became unresponsive. This shows how people tend to follow orders even though they went against their morals. Many of the volunteers wanted to stop as their moral compass told them it was wrong however as the experimenter demanded that they continue they did. They overlooked their morals to satisfy the requests of a stranger in a lab coat. This co-relates to what happened with the Nazis and the Jews. Though many of them may have not wanted to hurt anyone the ideologies of one person made them do so. This proved Milgram’s point that people tend to hold more influence on others than they thought.

One scenario where I realized the influence is when my older brothers and I would play video games. Our little brother would always bother us to play but we always told him to go away. After a few times and a bit of reflection, I realized I was once the same. When I was a kid I would pressure my older brothers to play with me and they always say no. I started to look at it from a perspective point of view. While my older brothers and I were playing to win all my younger brother wanted was to play with his older siblings and have fun. We were so focused on winning that we forgot the whole point of a game is to have fun with others.