Obedience to Authority (Perennial Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (588 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0711QBZ2X |
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| Number of Pages | : | 169 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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one of the most significant books I have read in more than two decades of reviewing" -- --Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE EXPERIMENTER“The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences.” — Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book WorldIn 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. Featuring a new introduction from Dr. 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. Philip Zimbardo, who conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, Obedience to Authority is Milgram’s fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions.. “Milgram’s experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority,” wrote
"dig into this full explanation of Milgram's greatest study and warning in one" according to Bw Schulz. For anyone who will issue or carry out orders in a military chain of command, dig into this full explanation of Milgram's greatest study and warning in one. The two minute film clips that we have all seen of a handful of the subjects generously handing over near-lethal levels of electric shocks (not really - but yet, really in their minds) to their fellow study volunteers. "Why do some people obey orders they feel are illegitimate or immoral?" according to Bruce W. Moss. An absolute classic. Explains much about people's willingness to follow even orders they consider morally wrong. They choose to follow such orderswhen they are given a moral imperative that in their opinion outweighs the dictates of their own conscience. In this book the overriding moral imperative presented is the advance of medicine, which the subjects are led to believ. "extraordinary book" according to Natan Avram. This is an extraordinary book, not only by its content but also by its writing style - terse, precise and with much wry humor. Stanley Milgram was thorough and imaginative in his experiments. While many have heard of his experiments testing the willingness of ordinary people to hurt others, the description of what he did is in fact quite stunning. While I am a research sc
Stanley Milgram taught social psychology at Yale and Harvard Universities before becoming a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He died in 1984 at the age of fifty-one.. He received several honors and awards, including a Ford Foundation Fellowship, an American Association for the Advancement o