Description
| Product ID: | 9781912127245 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Macat Library |
| Title: | An Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority |
| Subtitle: | An Experimental View |
| Authors: | Author: Mark Gridley, William J. Jenkins |
| Page Count: | 98 |
| Subjects: | Literary theory, Literary theory, Philosophy, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Study and learning skills: general, Political science and theory, Philosophy, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Study & learning skills: general, Political science & theory |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Milgram's book describes the landmark psychology experiment he conducted as a young researcher at Yale in the 1960s. He recruited volunteers to give "electric shocks" to learners whenever they answered a question wrong. The volunteers didn't know these subjects were not actually being shocked. Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination – casting new light on social phenomena in the process. His 1974 study Obedience to Authority exemplifies creative thinking at its most potent, and controversial. Interested in the degree to which an “authority figure” could encourage people to commit acts against their sense of right and wrong, Milgram tricked volunteers for a “learning experiment” into believing that they were inflicting painful electric shocks on a person in another room. Able to hear convincing sounds of pain and pleas to stop, the volunteers were told by an authority figure – the “scientist” – that they should continue regardless. Contrary to his own predictions, Milgram discovered that, depending on the exact set up, as many as 65% of people would continue right up to the point of “killing” the victim. The experiment showed, he believed, that ordinary people can, and will, do terrible things under the right circumstances, simply through obedience. As infamous and controversial as it was creatively inspired, the “Milgram experiment” shows just how radically creative thinking can shake our most fundamental assumptions. |
| Imprint Name: | Macat International Limited |
| Publisher Name: | Macat International Limited |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-07-04 |
