Controversial in Psychology of Justice

Controversial in Psychology of Justice

"Justice" is a vague word to use in general and one cannot identify what it really means because this word applies to so many meanings and is very contradicting topic to discuss about its definition. In my social justice class, we discussed about the topics of justice and ethics from the period of the great thinkers such as Plato and how people were influenced by the environment they lived in during that time. After observing thoroughly, I came to realized that there are two types of justice: justice as define as equality and psychological terms of justice by which, one's perspective of justice to be done when they are psychologically satisfied. With that in mind, I chose to do my final paper on social psychology; which is very significant for one to understand the cognitive development of moral and when do people take action towards unjust. So, therefore I decided to do my final paper based on the book "The Man Who Shocked The World" by Ph. D. Thomas Blass and, "TORTURE AT ABU GHRAIB" by Seymour M. Hersh and, an article on "THEORIES OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT" Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development by W.C. Crain. And for the reference, I interviewed Professor Dorothee Dietrich, who completed her Ph.D. on social psychology.

Stanley Milgram was

Milgram's study was a cross-cultural comparison of correspondence performed in Norway and France between 1957 and 1959. He used an adaptation of a technique invented by the social psychologist Solomon Asch. In 1955 Asch had come to Harvard as a visiting lecturer, and Milgram was assigned to be his teaching and research assistant. Milgram became intimately familiar with Asch's conformity experiments. In these experiments, a subject, seated among seven others, had to indicate which one of three lines was equal in length to a fourth line. The other seven, however, were in cahoots with Asch and intentionally gave incorrect matches during some of the trials. Asch found that a naive subject yielded to the will of the bogus majority about one-third of the time.

In 1959 and 1960, he worked for Asch at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, helping him edit a book on conformity. During his spare time, Milgram wrote his dissertation. As a result of their association there and at Harvard, Milgram considered Asch to be his most important scientific influence. It wasn't just Asch's work that influenced Milgram. Milgram's interest in the study of obedience also emerged out of a continuing identification with the suffering of fellow Jews at the hands of the Nazis and an attempt to fathom how the Holocaust could have happened. A poignant illustration of this can be found in a letter Milgram wrote from France to his schoolmate John Shaffer in the fall of 1958:

"My true spiritual home is Central Europe,