| Description |
xiv, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Medical Humanities collection HHSL
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| Contents |
The neighborhood with no name -- Making the grade at Harvard -- Norway and France -- From the princetitute to Yale -- Obedience: the experience -- Obedience: the experiment -- Aftershocks -- Return to academic Eden -- City psychology -- Center stage -- Vexations, cyranoids, and the declining years -- Milgram's legacy |
| Summary |
"The creator of the famous "Obedience Experiments," carried out at Yale in the 1960s, and originator of the "six degrees of separation" concept, Stanley Milgram was one of the most innovative scientists of our time. In this biography - the first in-depth portrait of Milgram - Thomas Blass captures the colorful personality and pioneering work of a man who profoundly altered the way we think about human nature."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography, pages 339-347 |
| Subject |
Milgram, Stanley., 1933-1984
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Milgram, Stanley.
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Social psychologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Authority.
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Obedience.
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Social psychology.
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Social psychology -- Experiments.
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Psychology, Social.
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Behavioral Research -- ethics.
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Behavioral Research -- history.
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Social Conformity.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2003023841 |
| ISBN |
0738203998 alkaline paper |
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