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Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

Stanley Milgram

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#2232 of 3,809 books · #229 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1975).

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. 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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Psychology experimentsObedience and authorityHuman behavior and morality

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