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Obedience to authority:

an experimental view
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Harper & Row, 1974 - Social Science - 224 pages
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.

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Scholarly book. Might be difficult to read if you do not have a basic understanding of scientific research procedures. Read full review

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User Review  - Raghavendra Datta Palleti - Goodreads

What can I say about this absolute epic that redefined Social Psychology for future generations? One thing is that you should be equipped with a dark sense of humour to not be surprised by the conclusions you would draw from reading this, other than that, I reiterate, an absolute epic. Read full review

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Contents

The Dilemma of Obedience
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Method of Inquiry
13
Expected Behavior
27
Copyright

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Obedience to Authority: An Experiment by Stanley Milgram
This presentation is based on the work Obedience To Authority: An Experimental View (1969), by Stanley Milgram. The book is published by Harper Colophon ...
www.faculty.rsu.edu/ ~felwell/ Theorists/ Milgram/ Presentation/ OBED.PPT

Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. New York: Harper and Row. An excellent presentation of Milgram’s work is also found in Brown, R. (1986). ...
www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ ucce50/ ag-labor/ 7article/ article35.htm

Psychology History
Stanley Milgram was raised in New York city where he was born in 1933. He graduated from James Monroe High School in 1950, along with fellow classmate and ...
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psyblog: Stanley Milgram: Obedience to Authority Or Just Conformity?
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Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View | Serendip's Exchange
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. Harper and Row, Publishers, 1974. p65-66. 6) Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. ...
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Obedience to Authority – Stanley Milgram - Reading notes / synthesis
Obedience to Authority – Stanley Milgram - Reading notes / synthesis
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Milgram experiment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, Milgram describes nineteen variations of his experiment. Generally, when the victim's physical immediacy ...
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The results of the study were made known in Milgram's Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974). So-called "teachers" (who were actually the ...
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About the author (1974)

Stanley Milgram taught social psychology at Yale University and Harvard University before becoming a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His honors and awards include a Ford Foundation fellowship, an -American Association for the Advancement of Science sociopsychological prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He died in 1984 at the age of fifty-one.

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