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Sinopsis
In 1961, a social psychologist at Yale asked ordinary volunteers to administer electric shocks to a stranger — increasing the voltage with each wrong answer, up to a level labelled Danger: Severe Shock. Sixty-five percent continued to the maximum. They were not sadists. They were not ideologically motivated. They were ordinary people who had been given an authority figure, a plausible reason to continue, and a sequence of small escalations that made each step feel like a continuation of the last.
Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments remain the most disturbing findings in the history of social psychology. Not because they revealed human evil — but because they revealed human ordinariness. The capacity for harmful compliance is not a property of damaged personalities. It is a feature of normal human social psychology, activated by conditions that are common in every institution human beings have ever built.
OBEDIENCE examines those conditions in full — what they are, how they operate, and what the decades of research that followed Milgram's original experiment have confirmed, challenged, and refined.
Inside this book:
- The Milgram experiments — what they actually proved, and what they did not
- The agentic state — how authority transfers moral responsibility away from the individual
- The foot in the door — why gradual escalation makes each small step feel manageable
- Conformity and Asch — how social pressure overrides the evidence of our own senses
- Dehumanisation — how language prepares ordinary people to harm
- The Holocaust, My Lai, Rwanda, Enron — how the mechanisms operate at historical scale
- The rescuers and the whistleblowers — who refused, and what made refusal possible
- What the science says about building institutions and individuals that resist
This is not a comfortable book. The science it describes is not comfortable. But it is the most important science there is — because the conditions it identifies are not historical relics. They are present in every organisation, institution, and authority structure that exists today.
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In 1961, a social psychologist at Yale asked ordinary volunteers to administer electric shocks to a stranger - increasing the voltage with each wrong answer, up to a level labelled Danger: Severe Shock. Sixty-five percent continued to the maximum. They were not sadists. They were not ideologically motivated. They were ordinary people who had been given an authority figure, a plausible reason to continue, and a sequence of small escalations that made each step feel like a continuation of the last. Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments remain the most disturbing findings in the history of social psychology. Not because they revealed human evil - but because they revealed human ordinariness. The capacity for harmful compliance is not a property of damaged personalities. It is a feature of normal human social psychology, activated by conditions that are common in every institution human beings have ever built. OBEDIENCE examines those conditions in full - what they are, how they operate, and what the decades of research that followed Milgram's original experiment have confirmed, challenged, and refined. Inside this book: The Milgram experiments - what they actually proved, and what they did notThe agentic state - how authority transfers moral responsibility away from the individualThe foot in the door - why gradual escalation makes each small step feel manageableConformity and Asch - how social pressure overrides the evidence of our own sensesDehumanisation - how language prepares ordinary people to harmThe Holocaust, My Lai, Rwanda, Enron - how the mechanisms operate at historical scaleThe rescuers and the whistleblowers - who refused, and what made refusal possibleWhat the science says about building institutions and individuals that resist This is not a comfortable book. The science it describes is not comfortable. But it is the most important science there is - because the conditions it identifies are not historical relics. They are present in every organisation, institution, and authority structure that exists today. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798195715052
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