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Obedience to Authority

Obedience to Authority

An Experimental View (Perennial Classics)

by Stanley Milgram

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appears in Psychology, Psychology, and Science.

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE EXPERIMENTERIn the 1960s Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that forever changed our perceptions of morality and free will. The subjects?or ?teachers??were instructed to administer electroshocks to a human ?learner,? with the shocks becoming prog...

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appears in Psychology, Psychology, and Science.

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