ISBN:
9781595589217
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (353 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Behind the Shock Machine : The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
DDC:
156
Keywords:
Obedience - Psychological aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that fully 65 percent of the volunteers had repeatedly administered electric shocks of increasing strength to a man they believed to be in severe pain, even suffering a life-threatening heart condition, simply because an authority figure had told them to do so. Such behavior was linked to atrocities committed by ordinary people under the Nazi reg
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Note to Readers; Timeline of the Obedience Exeriments; Prologue; Introduction; 1. The Man Behind the Mirror; 2. Going All the Way; 3. The Limit of Debriefing; 4. Subjects as Objects; 5. Disobedience; 6. The Secret Experiments; 7. Milgram's Staff; 8. In Search of a Theory; 9. The Ethical Controversy; 10. Milgram's Book; 11. Representing Obedience; Conclusion; Appendix: List of Conditions; Acnowledgments; Notes; Additional Sources
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