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Stanley Milgram
A Gateway to His Life, Ideas and Legacy
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36820418
EAN: 9798190611137
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Zustellung: Mi, 21.10.2026
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Beschreibung
Told by a calm man in a grey coat to keep pressing the switch, most ordinary people went all the way to a lever marked 450 volts - Danger: Severe Shock. They were not monsters. That is exactly what makes the finding so hard to forget. Stanley Milgram set out to answer the question the war-crimes trials had left hanging: how could so many ordinary people take part in atrocity. In a plain laboratory at Yale in the early 1960s, he built an experiment that gave the question a number. Sixty-five per cent of his volunteers obeyed to the end - far beyond the fraction of one per cent that experts had predicted - and psychology has been arguing about what it means ever since. Stanley Milgram: A Gateway to His Life, Ideas, and Legacy. is a clear, human introduction to the restless mind behind the most famous - and most contested - experiment in social psychology. It follows Milgram from a Bronx childhood to Harvard and Yale, and it takes his ethics as seriously as his findings. Inside, you'll discover:. How the obedience experiment actually worked - the shock generator, the scripted learner, the four calm prods - and why the situation. , not the person, did the work. Why "people do not need to be monsters in order to do monstrous things" became his most enduring and uncomfortable lesson, and the idea of the "agentic state" behind it. The small-world study that gave us "six degrees of separation" - what Milgram really found, and what the slogan leaves out. His lesser-known work - the lost letter, the familiar stranger, the cyranoid - and the single curiosity that unites it: the hidden architecture of social life. The fair, unflinching reckoning his research demands - the deception, the distress, the ethics storm he provoked, and the safeguards that now protect research participants because of it. Part of the Pioneers of Human Behaviour. series: premium, accessible, carefully researched gateways into the people who changed how we understand the mind. Quotations and key facts are checked against primary texts and trusted scholarship. Whether you are a student, a professional, or simply someone unsettled by what the experiments reveal, this is the honest, gripping introduction to the man who showed how easily good people follow orders.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Josh Graham
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 90