I’ve been reading recently about the popularization of science. A common theme in the academic articles I’ve read so far is the notion that as … Read more »
Author Archives: Gina Perry
Kohlberg, Milgram and morals
Most people who know of Laurence Kohlberg know him as the psychologist who did so much work on how we develop our moral reasoning. He’s … Read more »
Obedience in print
Here it is, the article that started it all, published 50 years ago in October 1963 – Stanley Milgram’s Behavioral Study of Obedience. But publication … Read more »
Obedience conference goes too fast
I’m just back from Canada where I co-convened the first ever Obedience to Authority conference with my colleague and fellow antipodean scholar, New Zealander Nestar … Read more »
Milgram’s secret experiments
Tom Bartlett over at the Chronicle of Higher Education has blogged about my discovery of obedience experiments that Stanley Milgram kept secret. In these experiments, … Read more »
Milgram’s obedience turns 50
It’s half a century ago this year since Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments first made their way into print. His first article about the experiments was … Read more »
Short history of shock
Shock machines were being used at educational institutions to improve student performance long before Stanley Milgram devised his obedience experiments at Yale in 1961. The … Read more »
Yale appoints Professor of Pickpocketing
Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment with its elaborate deception and sleight-of-hand was conducted in 1961 in the basement of a building at Yale University. Not that … Read more »
Inside Milgram’s shock machine
If you look at the photo you’ll notice a sign above the woman who’s entering an exhibit at the American Psychological Association’s 100th anniversary exhibition. … Read more »
Milgram’s obedience experiments on Adelaide stage
Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments are about to make an appearance in Adelaide. Not in a lab, or in a university, but in the Festival Centre. … Read more »