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Milgram vs. Baumrind In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale, conducted a set of revolutionary experiment which tested just how much pain an individual would inflict on another if ordered to by an authoritative figure. Diana Baumrind, author of “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiment on obedience.” thought that Milgram was incorrect in his reasoning. This essay will voice the different authors view of the experiment. In the experiment two people are involved, the learner, a mild mannered man who was the one being shocked, and the teacher, a stern looking secondary school teacher male was doing the shocking. Participants were told they were taking part in a study of effects of punishment on learning. They were also told that each time they were to make an error in a simple learning task they would be shocked. A preliminary run is given to the learner. This allows the subject to get a chance to get used to the instructions and a chance to warm up. The learner gets three out of ten correct and receives seven shocks. The shocks were delivered by means of switches on a special device. There were thirty switches on the device, each one being labeled. The first shock was 15 volts, then move to the next switch