Obedience to Authority: The Experiment That Challenged Human NatureHarperCollins, 11 jul 2017 - 245 páginas A part of Harper Perennial’s special “Resistance Library” highlighting classic works that illuminate our times: A special edition reissue of Stanley Milgram’s landmark examination of humanity’s susceptibility to authoritarianism. “The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences.” — Washington Post Book World 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. “Milgram’s experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority,” wrote Peter Singer in the New York Times Book Review. With an introduction from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, 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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... ORDINARY MAN GIVES ORDERS 13a. THE SUBJECT AS BYSTANDER 14. AUTHORITY AS VICTIM: AN ORDINARY MAN COMMANDING 15. TWO AUTHORITIES: CONTRADICTORY COMMANDS 16. TWO AUTHORITIES: ONE AS VICTIM 17. TWO PEERS REBEL 18. A PEER ADMINISTERS SHOCKS ...
... ordinary , even once good people , just following orders , have committed much evil in the world . British author C. P. Snow reminds us that more crimes against humanity have been committed in the name of obedience than disobedience ...
... ordinary people from two small towns - New Haven and Bridgeport , Connecticut- and detailed presentation of methodological features . Further , its replications across many cultures and time periods reveal its robust effectiveness . As ...
... ordinary adults were reduced to mindless obedient school children who do not know how to exit from a most unpleasant situation until teacher gives them permission to do so. At that critical juncture when their shocks might have caused a ...
... ordinary functioning of the social world. The question arises as to whether there is any connection between what we have studied in the laboratory and the forms of obedience we so deplored in the Nazi epoch. The differences in the two ...
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Method of Inquiry | |
Expected Behavior | |
Closeness of the Victim | |
Individuals Confront Authority 6 Further Variations and Controls 7 Individuals Confront Authority II | |
Role Permutations | |
Group Effects | |
Why Obedience?An Analysis | |
Applying the Analysis to the Experiment | |
Strain and Disobedience | |
Is Aggression the Key? | |
Problems of Method | |
About the Author | |