Topic > Title In A Few Good Men by Stanley Milgram

While having lunch at Guantanamo Bay, Kaffee asks Jessup a question in a casual manner by military standards. Jessup immediately becomes angry and asks Kaffee to rephrase his question in a more respectable form because he feels entitled to respect due to his many successes. Zimbardo allegedly began the conversation with the question of a man in uniform. Being put in uniform and brazenly told that one is above others and can give orders accordingly translates into entitlement, as seen in Zimbardo's experiment. When the students are given uniforms and placed above the prisoners, Jessup is promoted to head of Guantanamo Bay and is assured that he is above the other soldiers on his compound (Zimbardo 118). Zimbardo would effectively emphasize this parallel association and state how both resulted in the right to freely command what they wanted to command. Nisbett and Ross would agree and logically focus on further paralleling the change in environment of the two examples. Students went from a mostly subservient status as students to professors and then were catapulted into a position of such authority and command over the “prisoners.” Likewise, Jessup went from low-ranking officer to major commander of the Army with junior officers suddenly upon his denunciation. Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy, MD is a psychiatrist who states: "The law resembles a law, something