higher, 85% complied. "Normal" people cant violate human decency so "those sick ones" as the Germans were labeled was widespread by many people all over the world to rationalize how humans could commit this atrocity. The Milgram study suggested the Germans were in a set of special circumstances because the obedience we naturally show authority can transform us into agents of terror (Behrens & Rosen, 2000). The authority figures in this case were relentless in their goals.Hitlers in-group practiced maladaptive decision-making that Irving Janis termed "Groupthink because their group perceived themselves as invulnerable - blinded by optimism, and this was perpetuated when dissent is discouraged. This mode of thinking becomes so dominant in a cohesive in-group that it tends to override realistic appraisal of alternative courses of action." This could be said for other leaders in history as well. "The leadership styles include task oriented or people orientated. Task oriented involves the group performance, attaining the goals of the group. People orientated is concerned with the individual group members as to their feelings, needs, and problems. Moral is better achieved in people orientated style. However, in times of stress (wartime) task orientated leadership is used. Example, Hitler was a task orientated leader and cared only about attaining his goal: the "Final Solution" he cared nothing about the German people.The ordinary person in Milgrams experiment who shocked the victim did so out of a sense of obligation - an impression of his duties as a subject, as Adolf Eichmann maintained - and not from any peculiarly aggressive tendencies after all he only sat at his desk and shuffled papers he told the court at his trial. (Behrens & Rosen, 2000). The fundamental lesson in the Milgram study: "ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destruc...
