Obedience to Authority: An Experimental ViewIn the 1960s Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that forever changed our perceptions of morality and free will. The subjects--or "teachers"--were instructed to administer electroshocks to a human "learner," with the shocks becoming progressively more powerful and painful. Controversial but now strongly vindicated by the scientific community, these experiments attempted to determine to what extent people will obey orders from authority figures regardless of consequences. "Obedience to Authority" is Milgram's fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions. |
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User Review - Danie_Jorgenson - LibraryThingi loved reading this book even though it was research for a paper in my sociology because of its lessons it had to teach. The lessons are scary but necessary to confront in any time of how far the human species can go and truly feel with all their heart "their just following orders" Read full review
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User Review - benjamin7857 - LibraryThingOne of the most famous experiments in psychology, Milgram's obedience study continues to disturb psychologists and laymen alike today just as much as when the results were first revealed. And it's not ... Read full review
Contents
The Dilemma of Obedience | 1 |
Method of Inquiry | 13 |
Expected Behavior | 27 |
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| Title | Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View Volume 475 of Harper Colophon Books Harper torchbooks |
| Author | Stanley Milgram |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Harper & Row, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 10 Aug 2007 |
| ISBN | 0060129387, 9780060129385 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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