PT Barnum meets Stanley Milgram

·July 13, 2016 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram, Writing of psychology

What have professional showmen like PT Barnum and social psychologists like Stanley Milgram got in common? Plenty, according to Michael Pettit,  science historian and author … Read more »

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Milgram, Travolta and the Tenth Level

·June 21, 2016 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram

In August 1976, the TV movie The Tenth Level, inspired by Milgram’s obedience research, screened to around 30 million viewers as part of CBS’s Playhouse 90 series. From the opening scene onward, Professor … Read more »

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Job vacancy, Yale, 1961: obedience experimenter

·July 25, 2015 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram

Stanley Milgram drafted this ad for a research assistant in mid July 1961. The ad, like all Milgram’s recruitment materials, is cleverly crafted. It’s an … Read more »

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Milgram on experimentation and insight

·January 16, 2015 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Psychology of psychology experiments, Social psychology, Writing of psychology

When an investigator keeps his eyes open throughout a scientific study he learns things about himself as well as his subjects and the conclusions do … Read more »

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Fiction and flaws in social psych textbooks

·July 27, 2014 ·Social psychology, Writing of psychology

When a textbook is recommended for a class, you expect that you’ll be able to turn to it for definitive answers, don’t you?  Maybe you … Read more »

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Kohlberg, Milgram and morals

·November 13, 2013 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Psychology of psychology experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram

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 »

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Obedience conference goes too fast

·September 11, 2013 ·Events, Milgram's obedience experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram

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 »

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Milgram’s obedience turns 50

·July 11, 2013 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram, Writing of psychology

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 »

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Short history of shock

·June 3, 2013 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Psychology of psychology experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram

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 »

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Recordings of Robbers Cave

·February 22, 2013 ·Psychology of psychology experiments, Robbers Cave experiment, Social psychology

Social psychologists like Muzafer Sherif and Stanley Milgram were committed to recording as much of their experiments as possible. Not just on paper, but with … Read more »

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