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Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2 Milgram's Obedience Experiments and the Holocaust /

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Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram's personal co...

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Main Author: Russell, Nestar (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Personality.
Difference (Psychology).
Psychology.
Social sciences > History.
World War, 1939-1945.
Psychology > Methodology.
Personality and Differential Psychology.
History of Psychology.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Psychological Methods.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Origins and Evolution of Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiments
  • 3. How Milgram Ensured Most Participants Completed the First Official Experiment
  • 4. The Obedience to Authority Variations and Milgram's Agentic State Theory
  • 5. Academia's Response to Milgram's Findings and Explanation
  • 6. A New Theoretical Path-The Emergence of Milgram's Bureaucratic Machine
  • 7. Explaining the Baseline Condition's High Completion Rate
  • 8. The Shock Generator: the Most Powerful Single Factor in the Obedience Studies
  • 9. Conclusion.

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