A question I've always thought about in relation to Psychology is why people, when under certain circumstances, do the things they do, such in the case of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram experiment. Five years from now will I be put in a similar situation and be asked to perform a task I think is wrong in the presence of an authority figure? Probably. Am I going to be able to do what I think I would do and just quit, in the sense it's a similar Milgram experience, or am I going to submit and follow through until the end? You would think that you'll do the right thing but studies show that people still haven't changed. In the Dan Brown video we watched people still thought they were shocking another person and followed through to deadly voltage. There was one person who stopped after so many shocks and another woman who knew that she was in a recreation of the Milgram experiment and still shocked the other person. Why did she continue to shock the person? If she was unaware of the situation would she have shocked the person to a lethal level? A person in a lab coat was all it took for the shock administers to keep on shocking the other person. It's easy to say we wouldn't do what they did but in honesty would we? 
I think people in the Milgram study, who questioned authority knew what they were doing was cruel. However, when they didn't stop it almost makes me wonder if I as well would stop, if people older than me (and maybe wiser than me did not). I would hope, if put in that situation that I would not comply. However, it is very easy for people today looking at the Milgram study to think they would do the right thing. Yet, that contradicts the statistics, that show more people in the study did not stop administering shocks than those that did.
I agree with your post. This Milgram experiment was eye-opening to me. I believe if i was in that situation that I wouldn't have let an authority figure boss me around and do things that I don't believe in, however I'm sure if you wouldn't asked each of the participants in the study if they would give a lethal shock to another person for a scientific study that they all would've said no. This is why I was amazed while watching this video. Especially with the sound bites being played, I was truly amazed at how many people followed through to lethal dozes of voltage.
This study made me realize how the Nazi's could do such cruel things to the Jews. A lot of the German people were nice, normal citizens before the Third Reich and Hitler turned them into killers. Like the experimenter in the study, Nazi Propaganda and authority figures made it normal to treat these equal humans as inferior scum that need to be eliminated. Even though a lot of them still felt bad for their actions, it was either killing them or take their place in the grave for disobeying. Milgrams study brought truth to the Nazi's genocide of the Jew and many other power hungry dictatorships.
I think these studies were very interesting as well! One of the things I found the most interesting was the surveys when they asked people if they thought they would go through with shocking people, stop or refuse to do it. The statistics of how many people actually shocked the person in the experiment and the survey results were so different!
Nice blog entry! I found those studies interesting, which most people are seeming to agree on. It's crazy seeing what the study showed... and how many people went through with the situation. I can't imagine being in their shoes! I would honestly be so nervous to do something wrong or make them upset. But it's good that we have the opportunity to look back at situations like that today.