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Obedience to Authority

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ISBN-10: 0060129387

ISBN-13: 9780060129385

Edition: 1974

Authors: Stanley Milgram

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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.
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Book details

List price: $12.45
Copyright year: 1974
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Stanley Milgram taught social psychology at Yale University and Harvard University before becoming a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His honors and awards include a Ford Foundation fellowship, an -American Association for the Advancement of Science sociopsychological prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He died in 1984 at the age of fifty-one.

Foreword
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
Problems of ethics in research
Patterns among individuals