... been exposed to a natural disaster such as a volcanic eruption may resent it if experimenters start asking them detailed questions about their mental health or psychological well being. Milgram's work raises important ethical issues - issues that also apply to many other studies. In fact Milgram's study has become almost more famous for the ethical issues it raised than for its findings. People criticised Milgram for the sever distress he cause many if not all of his participants. The participants were not told the true nature of Milgram's experiment; they were told that it was a memory experiment but was not really. Milgram claimed that the fact that participants did not find fault with his procedures is a sufficient judgment of his deception. Cleary where an experiment involves deception the participant is not in a position to provide informed consent. This refers to the participants giving their agreement to ...

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