Front cover image for Obedience to authority : an experimental view

Obedience to authority : an experimental view

Volunteers are told to administer an electric shock of increasing intensity everytime a "learner" makes a mistake. From the Holocaust to Vietnam, this text aims to explain how ordinary people can commit the most horrific of crimes if placed under the influence of a malevolent authority.
Print Book, English, 2005
Pinter & Martin, London, 2005
xxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
9780953096473, 0953096475
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