Research Catalog

Title

• Stanley Milgram : understanding obedience and its implications / by Peter Lunt.

Author

Lunt, Peter K. (Peter Kenneth), 1956-

Publication

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 157 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This book is a fascinating introduction to Stanley Milgram, best known for his obedience study in which he persuaded his subjects to administer electric shocks to what they thought were fellow subjects. Lunt explores Milgram's influence in social psychology and how he undercut the traditional notion that individuals should be seen as rational autonomous beings"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

• Mind shapers series

Subject

• Milgram, Stanley
• Milgram, Stanley, 1933-1984
• Psychology, Social
• Social psychology
• Sociale psychologie

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Milgram's obedience to authority experiments -- Milgram's explanation of his findings -- The reaction of the psychology community -- Power, domination and the sociology of the holocaust -- Political culture, political psychology and social influence -- The individual in a social world -- Contemporary resonances of Milgram's research.

ISBN

• 9780230573154 (pbk.)
• 0230573150 (pbk.)

OCLC

463674796

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library