Obedience to authority : an experimental view
"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. Obedience to authority is Milgram's fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions."--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2009
HarperPerennial Modern Thought ed View all formats and editions
HarperPerennial Modern Thought, New York, 2009
xxv, 224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
9780061765216, 006176521X
1001945000
The dilemma of obedience
Method of inquiry
Expected behavior
Closeness of the victim
Individuals confront authority
Further variations and controls
Individuals confront authority II
Role permutations
Group effects
Why obedience? an analysis
The process of obedience : applying the analysis to the experiment
Strain and disobedience
An alternative theory : is aggression the key?
Problems of method
Epilogue
Appendix I. Problems of ethics in research
Appendix II. Patterns among individuals
Originally published: New York : Harper and Row, 1974. With a new forward by Philip Zimbardo