{"product_id":"obedience-to-authority-an-experimental-view-9780061765216","title":"Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View","description":"\u003cp\u003eHalf a century ago, social scientist Stanley Milgram carried out a series of experiments. The \"teacher\" is told to administer electroshocks in progressively more painful degrees to the \"learner.\" The teacher--unaware that the learner is an actor receiving no shocks at all--is the real focus of the study. These controversial and criticized experiments illustrate how people will obey authority regardless of consequences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" Milgram's] investigations accomplish what we should expect of responsible social science: to inform the intellect without trivializing the phenomenon.\"--Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilgram, Stanley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eStanley Milgram taught social psychology at Yale University and Harvard University before becoming a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His honors and awards include a Ford Foundation fellowship, an -American Association for the Advancement of Science sociopsychological prize, and a Guggenheim fellowship. He died in 1984 at the age of fifty-one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50707064094994,"sku":"9780061765216","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_41b9d799-0bcd-4604-887c-d8c49ec6a1ab.jpg?v=1737264588","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/obedience-to-authority-an-experimental-view-9780061765216","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}