Blogs about: Stanley Milgram

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Decades Later, Still Asking: Would I pull That Switch?1 comment

CM'Blog wrote 3 weeks ago: Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments in the early 1960’s were the kind that forced a question … more »

Tags: Bit o' everything else, Back to homepage, Life, People, Experiments, Psychology, Reality TV

Scientific Authority and Contemporary Culture

Andrew wrote 1 month ago: For a long time, I have been fascinated with Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment from the earl … more »

Tags: academic careerism, Science, The Ivory Tower and its Discontents, Authority, Culture, Human Nature, Institutions, Psychology, Research

CHAPTER ONE

idyllist wrote 1 month ago: UNDERGOING A MAJOR REVISION Back very soon. Promise. … more »

Tags: Work, Humor, Lexington, Kentucky, rumor, Hate My Job, Cheating, infedelity, Moby Dick

The Situation of John Yoo and the Torture Memos

The Situationist Staff wrote 2 months ago: Situationist friend Andrew Perlman recently published a terrific editorial in The National Law Journ … more »

Tags: Abstracts, History, Law, Morality, Politics, Social Psychology, Video, 9/11, Bush administration

Stanley Milgram's Experiment of Obedience!

sweetangel16175 wrote 2 months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6GxIuljT3w stanley milgrams claim is the obedience to authority is … more »

Tags: obedience to authority, personal conscience, stanley milgrams experiment, Nazi War Crimes, Hitler, immoral actions, study of obedience, unethical experiment, ethics

Six Degrees of Seperation2 comments

theshowstopper wrote 2 months ago: Chari always comes up with weird topics at the wrong time. Chari, Sumit and myself are walking down … more »

Tags: Life in general, six degrees of seperation, satoshi

The Milgram experiment5 comments

pKay wrote 2 months ago: This is so awesome. I had never heard of the experiment at the time I saw this video and it was … more »

Tags: YouTube, Authority, experiment, Holocaust, loyalty, Milgram experiment, Obedience, Obey, Pain

In Which I Reveal My Sadistic Nature

The Mad Slave wrote 3 months ago: Damn, I want these guys’* institutional review board. I often find myself wistfully telling m … more »

Tags: ethics, experimentation, HUD, Research

A hoax most cruel1 comment

fs2004 wrote 3 months ago: I remember seeing a 20/20 special on this McDonalds incident after it was first deeply investigated … more »

Tags: conformity

Colorado teacher accused of in-class abuse

fs2004 wrote 3 months ago: Today in the news I read about a teacher who had instructed his students to hit a classmate when he … more »

Tags: Hitting, School, teacher

Social Psychology: The Milgram Occupation

grant czerepak wrote 4 months ago: Every encounter with authority is a Milgram experiment. You are subject to influence which is eith … more »

Tags: Authority, Business, comfort, don't be evil, ethics, Evil, Fear, Influence, Machiavelli

Six Degrees of Motivation4 comments

woowooteacup wrote 5 months ago: Most of us have heard that we are only six degrees of separation from any person on earth.   This … more »

Tags: Magazine, Life, pop culture, Actors, Research, Sociology, study, judith kleinfeld, Discover Magazine

Is 6 degrees of separation a myth?1 comment

socialcapital wrote 6 months ago: NPR had an interesting discussion on Talk of the Nation (January 25, 200 regarding whether it is tr … more »

Tags: Small World, duncan watts, 6 Degrees of Separation, judith kleinfeld, steven strogatz, npr, Osama bin Laden

Reference celebrity(?) connection

Librari[d]an wrote 7 months ago: Remember Stanley Milgram’s breakthrough 1967 study, in which he suggested that everyone in the … more »

Tags: Library, ALA, d.l. ashliman, folklore, guide to reference books, the cycle of life in indo-european folktales, voices from the past

The Lengths We Will Go To To Conform

anotheropinionatedyouth wrote 8 months ago: From Spring.org.uk - What psychological experiment could be so powerful that simply taking part migh … more »

Tags: Personal, knowledge, taser, milgram, Psychology, wwii, Cruelty, Yale University, Yale

SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS

chiara1984 wrote 9 months ago: Il Social network analysis [SNA] è l’analisi e la misurazione delle relazioni e dei fluss … more »

Tags: Society, Rete Sociale, sei gradi, six grades of separation, social network, social network analisys

How a press blunder can be career threatening2 comments

Tudor wrote 11 months ago: A young executive provides a story in good faith to a journalist. Now her career is under threat. … more »

Tags: Eve Tahmincioglu, Karl Weick, project leadership

Obedience To Authority4 comments

JamieSW wrote 1 year ago: UPDATE: Sorry people. The Google mods have deleted the video on copyright grounds. However, you can … more »

Tags: videos, Obedience