Title:
Obedience to authority : an experimental view / Stanley Milgram.
Author:
Milgram, Stanley.
Zimbardo, Philip G.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial/Modern Thought, 2009.
Call Number:
HM1251 .M53 2009
Abstract:
"In 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."--P. [4] of cover.
Edition:
1st Harper Perennial Modern Thought ed.
ISBN:
9780061765216
Series:
Perennial classic
Perennial classic.
Physical Description:
xxv, 224 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Harper and Row; London : Tavistock, 1974.
With a new introduction by Philip Zimbardo, director of the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Contents:
The dilemma of obedience -- Method of inquiry -- Expected behavior -- Closeness of the victim -- Individuals confront authority -- Further variations and controls -- Individuals confront authority II -- Role permutations -- Group effects -- Why obedience? An analysis -- The process of obedience : applying the analysis to the experiment -- Strain and disobedience -- An alternative theory : is aggression the key? -- Problems of method -- Epilogue -- Appendix I. Problems of ethics in research -- Appendix II. Patterns among individuals.
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