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Obedience to Authority
Author: Stanley Milgram
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A part of Harper Perennials special Resistance Library highlighting classic works that illuminate our times A special edition reissue of Stanley Milgrams landmark examination of humanitys susceptibility to authoritarianism.The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences. *Washington Post Book World*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 subjectsor teacherswere 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. Milgrams experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority, wrote Peter Singer in the New York Times Book Review. With an introduction from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, Obedience to Authority is Milgrams fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions.******Review... one of the most significant books I have read in more than two decades of reviewing -- --Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times**From the Back CoverTHE 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 World* 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 subjectsor teacherswere 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. Milgrams experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority, wrote Peter Singer in theNew York Times Book Review. Featuring a new introduction from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment,Obedience to Authorityis Milgrams fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions.
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A part of Harper Perennials special Resistance Library highlighting classic works that illuminate our times A special edition reissue of Stanley Milgrams landmark examination of humanitys susceptibility to authoritarianism.The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences. *Washington Post Book World*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 subjectsor teacherswere 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. Milgrams experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority, wrote Peter Singer in the New York Times Book Review. With an introduction from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, Obedience to Authority is Milgrams fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions.******Review... one of the most significant books I have read in more than two decades of reviewing -- --Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times**From the Back CoverTHE 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 World* 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 subjectsor teacherswere 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. Milgrams experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority, wrote Peter Singer in theNew York Times Book Review. Featuring a new introduction from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who conducted the famous Stanford Prison Experiment,Obedience to Authorityis Milgrams fascinating and troubling chronicle of his classic study and a vivid and persuasive explanation of his conclusions.
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