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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... situation against what they actually did when immersed in that crucible of human nature . Unfortunately , many psychologists , students , and lay people who believe that they know the " Milgram Shock ” study , know only one version of ...
... situation until teacher gives them permission to do so. At that critical juncture when their shocks might have ... situations of dominance and control over individual behavior. In addition, both are dramatic demonstrations of powerful ...
... situation. We all know about the philosophic problems of freedom and authority. But in every case where the problem ... situations are, of course, enormous, yet the difference in scale, numbers, and political context may turn out to be ...
... situations but by carefully constructing a situation that captures the essence of obedience—that is, a situation in which a person gives himself over to authority and no longer views himself as the efficient cause of his own actions. To ...
... receives no shock at all . The point of the experiment is to see how far a person will proceed in a concrete and measurable situation in which he is ordered to inflict increasing pain on a protesting victim. At what point will.
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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 | |