Obedience To Authority: An Experimental View (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- Volunteers are invited to a scientific laboratory under the pretence of participating in a study about the effects of punishment on learning. They are instructed by an experimenter to administer an electric shock of increasing intensity every time a 'learner', strapped to an electric conductor, makes a mistake. How many, if any, would go right up the scale to 450 Volts? The implications of Stanley Milgram's extraordinary findings (up to 65 per cent of subjects administered the full shock) are devastating. From the Holocaust to Vietnam and Iraq, "Obedience to Authority" goes some way towards explaining how ordinary people can commit the most horrific of crimes if placed under the influence of a malevolent authority. This title is presented with a new foreword by Jerome Bruner.
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 256 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781905177325
- Publisher:
- Pinter & Martin Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 10/30/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Pinter & Martin
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Psychology, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Zoë Hutton
- Proofread By:
- Zoë Hutton
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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