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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... SHOCK LEVEL 12. LEARNER DEMANDS TO BE SHOCKED 13. AN 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 ...
... Shock ” study , know only one version of it , most likely from seeing his influential movie Obedience or reading a ... shocks were causing suffering to the person in the role of the learner . I believe that it was seeing his movie , in ...
... shock generator . Its main feature is a horizontal line of thirty switches , ranging from 15 volts to 450 volts , in 15 - volt increments . There are also verbal designations which range from SLIGHT SHOCK to DANGER - SEVERE SHOCK . The ...
... shock begins to indicate that he is experiencing discomfort. At 75 volts, the “learner” grunts. At 120 volts he complains verbally; at 150 he demands to be released from the experiment. His protests continue as the shocks escalate ...
... shocked the victim at the most severe level were monsters, the sadistic fringe of society. But if one considers that almost two-thirds of the participants fall into the category of “obedient” subjects, and that they represented ordinary ...
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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 | |