num_pages: 240
description: Volunteers are invited to a scientific laboratory under the pretense of participating in a study about the effects of punishment on learning. They are instructed by an experimenter to administer an electric shock of increasing intensity every time a 'learner', strapped to an electric conductor, makes a mistake. How many, if any, would go right up the scale to 450 Volts? The implications of Stanley Milgram's extraordinary findings (up to 65 per cent of subjects administered the full shock) are devastating. From the Holocaust to Vietnam and Iraq, Obedience to Authority goes some way towards explaining how ordinary people can commit the most horrific of crimes if placed under the influence of a malevolent authority. With a new foreword by Jerome Bruner.
language: English
title: Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View
titlecomplete: Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View
genres: Classics, History, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Science, Academic, Nonfiction, Social Science, Politics
ratings_count: 4118
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: The Sciences
publisher: Pinter & Martin Ltd.