The man who shocked the world : the life and legacy of Stanley Milgram / Thomas Blass.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiv, 360 pages, [8] of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780738203997
  • 0738203998
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Man who shocked the world.DDC classification:
  • 302.092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • HM1031.M55 B57 2004
NLM classification:
  • 2006 I-515
  • WZ 100
Online resources:
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.
Review: "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."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-347) and index.

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.

"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."--Jacket.

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