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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... sense , he is following in the tradition of Kurt Lewin , although he is not generally considered to be in the Lewinian tradition , as Leon Festinger , Stanley Schachter , Lee Ross , and Richard Nisbett are , for example . Yet to study ...
... sense given the seemingly reasonable stated intentions of the just authority who began the study . It makes sense that psychological researchers would care about the judicious use of punishment as a means to improve learning and memory ...
... sense the responsibility of the person who carries it out but only of the authority that orders it . But humanists argue for the primacy of individual conscience in such matters , insisting that the moral judgments of the individual ...
... 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 this modest situation, in the hope that it would stimulate insights ...
... sense of obligation—a conception of his duties as a subject—and not from any peculiarly aggressive tendencies. This is, perhaps, the most fundamental lesson of our study: ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any ...
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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 | |