Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments

by Gina Perry

Book Overview

When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that fully 65 percent of the volunteers had repeatedly administered electric shocks of increasing strength to a man they believed to be in severe pain, even suffering a life-threatening heart condition, simply...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159558921X
• ISBN13: 9781595589217
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"