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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... participants behaving in ways that would lead to group acceptance rather than rejection . Milgram wanted to discover the direct and immediate impact of one powerful individual's commands to another person to behave in ways that ...
... participants , which was true initially , but later he replicated his findings with females . He has been challenged for relying only on Yale students , because the first studies were conducted at Yale University . However , the Milgram ...
... participant-teachers spontaneously got out of their seats and went to inquire about the condition of their learner ... participants. I discuss at considerable length my views on the ethics of such research in my recent book The Lucifer ...
... participants and would be repeated at several universities , but at the beginning , the conception was simple . A ... participant will comply with the experimenter's instructions before refusing to carry out the actions required of him ...
... participation in a psychological experiment scarcely evokes the sense of urgency and dedication engendered by participation in war. Despite these limitations, I thought it worthwhile to start careful observation of obedience even in ...
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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 | |