Title: Obedience to Authority
Publisher: Harper Perennial (1983)
Chapter 1-8:
Summary: Milgram outlines his famous experiment testing, you guessed it, a person's Obedience to Authority. He goes into detail about the different variables of the experiment, such as a subject's proximity to the actor, influences from the person's background such a gender and nationality, as well as other information gleaned from post experiment surveys. Milgrim also spends a good deal of time discussing the hypothesis of his colleges.
Discussion: Milgram's novel has been very insightful. His chapter of Opening Skinner's Box was one of my favorites, so it's nice getting to read about all the different variables. I'm still surprised at how obedient the test subjects are.
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