?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Social+Engineering+Solution+to+the+Murder+in+the+Milgram+Experiment&rft.creator=Tarnow%2C+Dr.+Eugen&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=Society's+power+to+make+us+obey+allows+for+peaceful+existence%2C+economic+prosperity+and+efficiency+but+it+also+amplifies+faulty+decisions+to+become+catastrophic.+In+1963+Stanley+Milgram+showed+that+the+vast+majority+of+humans+exhibit+excessively+obedient+behavior+in+presence+of+an+authority+and+can+easily+be+made+to+encourage+or+tolerate+real+torture+and+murder.%0A%09In+this+advocacy+paper%2C+the+overdue+issue+of+how+to+limit+excessive+obedience+is+addressed.+Eliminating+the+Milgram+Prediction+Error+%E2%80%93+i.e.+the+discrepancy+between+what+we+think+we+will+do+and+what+we+actually+do+in+situations+of+authority+is+stressed.++Barriers+and+dynamics+in+our+society+that+keep+us+from+breaking+and+even+enforce+our+habit+to+obey+excessively+are+discussed.+For+example%2C+society+does+not+know+what+the+strong+situations+are+and+therefore+cannot+put+up+a+defense+against+them%3B+the+law+does+not+punish+excessively+obedient+behavior+and+the+teaching+of+ethics+is+hampered+by+illusions+of+its+efficiency.%0A%09A+sketch+of+a+solution+to+the+problem+of+excessive+obedience+is+made+involving+experiential+training%2C+mappings+of+authority+fields%2C+rules+and+strong+situations%2C+and+policy+changes.%0A&rft.date=2005-05&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4894%2F1%2FSocial_Engineering_Solution.htm&rft.identifier=++Tarnow%2C+Dr.+Eugen++(2005)+The+Social+Engineering+Solution+to+the+Murder+in+the+Milgram+Experiment.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4894%2F