Research Catalog

Title

The individual in a social world : essays and experiments / Stanley Milgram ; editor, Thomas Blass.

Author

Milgram, Stanley.

Publication

London : Pinter & Martin, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Blass, Thomas.

Description

425 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Stanley Milgram revolutionized our understanding of human nature with his classic research on obedience to authority - but the obedience experiments form just a small part of an extraordinary wealth of ground-breaking research that made him one of the most important social psychologists of our times.

Subject

• Social psychology
• Psychology, Social

Note

• Previous ed.: New York; London: McGraw-Hill, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The experience in living in cities -- The urban bystander -- On maintaining social norms: a field experiment in the subway -- Response to intrusion into waiting lines -- The idea of a neighborhood -- The familiar stranger: an aspect of urban anonymity -- A psychological map of New York City -- Psychological maps of Paris -- The vertical city -- Ruminations on rudeness -- A patient's view of the hospital strike -- Some conditions of obedience and disobedience to authority -- Interpreting obedience: error and evidence -- Subject reaction: the neglected factor in the ethics of experimentation -- Disobedience in the sixties -- On the Jonestown mass tragedy and teh power of situational forces -- Nationality and conformity -- Conformity and Norwegian life -- Ethics in the conformity experiment: an empirical study -- Group pressure and action against a person -- Liberating effects of group pressure -- The drawing power of crowds of different size -- Crowds -- Who joins the unions -- The soical meaning of fanaticism -- The small world problem -- The lost-letter technique -- Television and antisocial behavior: field experiments -- The image-freezing machine -- Candid camera -- Reflections on news -- Cyranoids -- Network love.

ISBN

• 9781905177127 (pbk.)
• 1905177127 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 300404681
• SCSB-12658509

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library