Obeying or resisting authority
Subtitle: a psychological retrospective
By: ABC News Productions
Contributors: Zimbardo, Philip G.; ABC News Productions; Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Series: PED 670 (NU course); PSY 100 (NU course); PSY 432 (NU course); PSY 635 (NU course); SOC 100 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9781421376233
Subjects: Authority; Experiments; Obedience; Social psychology; Human experimentation in psychology; Compliance; Moral and ethical aspects; Psychology
Other titles: Primetime (Television program); Basic instincts (Television program)
Description: Echoing the infamous Milgram experiment from the 1960s, this ABC News program sets up a psychological test in which an authority figure urges men and women to inflict pain. Test administrator and social psychologist Dr. Jerry Burger interprets the disturbing findings. The program also analyzes the 1971 Stanford prison experiment as well as the 2004 hoax in which a McDonald's manager and her fiance?--directed by a caller impersonating a police officer-- strip-searched and abused an employee. Original footage from all of these occurrences is included, along with present-day commentary from Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who designed the Stanford test. Finally, the program explores the ethics of using human participants in psychological tests.
Notes: Also available as streaming video.

Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Originally broadcast on Jan. 3, 2007 as a segment of ABC Primetime limited series, Basic instincts.

Test administrator and social psychologist, Dr. Jerry Burger ; commentator, Dr. Philip Zimbardo.

DVD-R.

Closed-captioned.