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  Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Paperback) By (author) Stanley Milgram, Foreword by Philip Zimbardo

  

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  Short Description for Obedience to AuthorityFrom the Holocaust to Vietnam and Iraq, this title explains how ordinary people can commit the most horrific of crimes if placed under the influence of a malevolent authority.
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  • Publisher: Pinter & Martin Ltd.
  • Published: 22 February 2010
  • Format: Paperback 231 pages
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  • Categories: Society & Culture: General | Social Issues & Processes | Social, Group Or Collective Psychology
  • ISBN 13: 9781905177325 ISBN 10: 1905177321
  • Sales rank: 51,598

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• Volunteers are invited to a scientific laboratory under the pretense 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.