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Blass, Thomas.
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Social psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Authority.
Obedience.
Social psychology.
Social psychology -- Experiments.
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Blass, Thomas.
Milgram, Stanley.
Social psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Authority.
Obedience.
Social psychology.
Social psychology -- Experiments.
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The man who shocked the world : the life and legacy of Stanley Milgram /
Thomas
Blass
.
by
Blass
,
Thomas
.
Basic Books, c2004.
Call #:
302.092 M644b
Subjects
Milgram, Stanley.
Social psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
Authority.
Obedience.
Social psychology.
Social psychology -- Experiments.
ISBN:
0738203998 (alk. paper)
Alternate title:
Life and legacy of Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram [the life and legacy]
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxiv, 360 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-347) and index.
Contents:
The neighborhood with no name -- Making the grade at Harvard -- Norway and France -- From the "princetitute" to Yale -- Obedience: the experience -- Obedience: the experiment -- Aftershocks -- Return to academic Eden -- City psychology -- Center stage -- Vexations, cyranoids, and the declining years -- Milgram's legacy.
Summary:
"The creator of the famous "Obedience Experiments," carried out at Yale in the 1960s, and originator of the "six degrees of separation" concept, Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. In this sparkling biography
Thomas
Blass
captures the colorful personality and pioneering work of a social psychologist who profoundly altered the way we think about human nature. Born in the Bronx in 1933, Stanley Milgram was the son of Eastern European Jews, and his powerful Obedience Experiments had obvious intellectual roots in the Holocaust. The experiments, which confirmed that normal people would readily inflict pain on innocent victims at the behest of an authority figure, generated a firestorm of public interest and outrage-proving, as they did, that moral beliefs were far more malleable than previously thought. But Milgram also explored other aspects of social psychology, from information overload to television violence to the notion that we live in a small world. Although he died suddenly at the height of his career, his work continues to shape the way we live and think today.
Blass
offers a brilliant portrait of an eccentric visionary scientist who revealed the hidden workings of our very social world"--Provided by publisher.
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