Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

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Author/Contributor(s): Milgram, Stanley
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date: 06/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
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Half a century ago, social scientist Stanley Milgram carried out a series of experiments. The "teacher" is told to administer electroshocks in progressively more painful degrees to the "learner." The teacher--unaware that the learner is an actor receiving no shocks at all--is the real focus of the study. These controversial and criticized experiments illustrate how people will obey authority regardless of consequences.

"[Milgram's] investigations accomplish what we should expect of responsible social science: to inform the intellect without trivializing the phenomenon."--Science