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| Milgram Experiment: The Milgram Experiment, conducted in the 1960s by psychologist Stanley Milgram, tested obedience to authority. Participants, believing they were administering electric shocks to another person, followed instructions from an authority figure. The experiment revealed a high willingness to obey orders, even when they conflicted with personal conscience. See also Obedience, Conformity, Authority, Behavior, Social Behavior, Totalitarianism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Bruno Bettelheim on Milgram Experiment - Dictionary of Arguments
Haslam I 119 Milgram experiment/Bettelheim: Bruno Bettelheim, a famous psychoanalyst who himself had written about behaviour in the concentration camps and who had positively reviewed Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem in the New Republic (15 June 1963), declared the studies (>Experiment/Milgram) to to be ‘vile’ and ‘in line with the human experiments of the Nazis’ (cited in Blass, 2004(1): 123). >Milgram experiment/psychological studies. 1. Blass, T. (2004) The Man who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram. New York: Basic Books. Stephen Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam, „Obedience. Revisiting Milgram’s shock experiments”, in: Joanne R. Smith and S. Alexander Haslam (eds.) 2017. Social Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies. London: Sage Publications_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Bettelheim, Bruno Haslam I S. Alexander Haslam Joanne R. Smith Social Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies London 2017 |
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