Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
“It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act”: First Edition of "of this classic account of the human tendency to follow orders" Obedience To Authority; Inscribed by Stanley Milgram
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
MILGRAM, Stanley.
$5,000.00
Item Number: 18064
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Stanley Milgram on the front free endpaper, “To Nat with warm regards, Stanley.” The recipient was a student at Yale University of Milgram’s. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Between 1961 and 1964, Stanley Milgram carried out a series of experiments at Yale University in which human subjects were instructed to administer what they thought were progressively more painful electric shocks to another human being to determine to what extent people would obey orders even when they knew them to be painful and immoral. The experiments came under heavy criticism at the time but were ultimately vindicated by the scientific community. “Milgram’s experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority,” wrote Peter Singer in the New York Times Book Review. Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority are considered among the most important psychological studies of the twentieth century. Basis for the motion picture The Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Wynona Ryder.
