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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Milgram’s meditation on the mind

·May 9, 2014 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Stanley Milgram, Writing of psychology

Sometimes I think that my mind is littered with the junk of our times, neon signs, beer cans, flashing hub caps, like an abandoned garbage … 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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Ian Parker, Granta and me

·December 3, 2013 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Science writing, Stanley Milgram, Writing of psychology

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 »

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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 in print

·October 4, 2013 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Psychology of writing, Science writing, Stanley Milgram, Writing of psychology

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 »

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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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