Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram

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  What-A-Coincidence

  a show on coasttocoast 640 here in l.a. is talking about the view of Stanley Milgram at this moment http://www.coasttocoastam.com/ . Damm thing sounds great. I am going to buy the book. Has anyone read it or heard about it?

  Bastards charge you for a podcast of the radio... i wanted to record it to post. i am recording onto a digital recorder right know to post later. Anyone interested?

  1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:Psychology + Page-turner, October 28, 2005 Reviewer: N. J. Steere (Sunny Florida) - See all my reviews Lots has been said about both the book and the experiment; I see other reviewers lay out the experiment in detail. So, I'll skip ahead to my opinion. This book will scare the poo out of you. I hope you chuckled a little, but don't take it TOO lightly. This book seriously caused me to reexamine my faith in other people. Milgram's experiment rocked the world, and to hear the man's take on what happened will bring you further into this great study. There's lots of detail about the study and tables of data, which can get tedious but elevate the books credibility, and help you play along at home once Milgram starts to interpret the data. You'll notice other reviewers farther down debating w/ Milgram based solely on reading his book. That should tell you he did a good job of providing the data, not just the "correct" (his) conclusions. I also really found the book a gripping read. Milgram has an accesible writing style, and you'll have no trouble keeping up with him even when his mind starts humming. So while the subject is about as rough as it gets, the information in the book is easy to get at, even if you don't really like what you find. If you are interested in the subject matter, I believe you'll really enjoy this. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) (Report this)
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  Oroborus21

  We studied about these experiments in my psych classes back in college. Very interesting stuff but remember that the results indicate what can occur under very controlled conditions. The application of the findings to more dynamic situations is quite limited.

  Incidently, ABC's Primetime recently did a segment on False Confessions. A simple experiment that was set-up, demonstrated how easy it is for many people to "falsely confess" to something which they know they did not do in the face of an authority figure and often a second false witness. http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1783918&page=1

  These types of situations show how much a person may bend in an intense situation or in the face of an authority figure but again one should understand the limits of such obsevations or findings.

  A similar real-world event that occurs quite frequently is the observation that despite the fact that pretty much every TV viewer in the U.S. understands that he or she "has the right to remain silent" when in police custody, persons in a massive majority still open their mouths and talk.

  In law school, my professor discussed with us a study that he helped conduct back in the 60s/early 70s where they actually took a bunch of extremely well educated college students (graduate students) who were planning on burning their draft cards or protesting the Vietnam war or something like that (they were expected to be arrested) and reviewed with them thoroughly their right to remain silent nd the reasons and benefits thereof. Yet despite the experimental group's training, when it came time and they were taken into custody only a very tiny fraction actually remained silent when they were being interviewed by the federal investigators.

  -Eduardo