History of social psychology

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’s obedience statistics published

·April 11, 2014 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Psychology of psychology experiments, Stanley Milgram

Stanley Milgram kept data sheets like the one pictured here for all 24 variations of his obedience experiments. However, while he conducted the experiments over … 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 secret experiments

·July 28, 2013 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Psychology of psychology 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 »

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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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