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Author Russell, Nestar, author.

Title Understanding willing participants : Milgram's obedience experiments and the Holocaust / Nestar Russell.

Imprint Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018- ]
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 2nd FL Social Science Library Books  HM1031.M55 R87 2018  v.1    Available
Collation 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Vol. 1: Germany's "ordinary monsters" and the Holocaust -- The origins and evolution of Milgram's obedience to authority experiments -- How Milgram ensured most participants completed the first official experiment -- The obedience to authority variations and Milgram's agentic state theory -- Academia's response to Milgram's findings and explanation -- A new theoretical path : the emergence of Milgram's bureaucratic machine -- Explaining the new baseline condition's high completion rate -- The shock generator : the most powerful single factor in the obedience studies.
Summary "Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram's personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how during Milgram's unpublished pilot studies he step-by-step invented his official experimental procedure--how he gradually learnt to transform most ordinary people into willing inflictors of harm. The open access volume two then illustrates how certain innovators within the Nazi regime used the very same Milgram-like learning techniques that with increasing effectiveness gradually enabled them to also transform most ordinary people into increasingly capable executioners of other men, women, and children. Volume two effectively attempts to capture how step-by-step these Nazi innovators attempted to transform the Führer's wish of a Jewish-free Europe into a frightening reality. By the books' end the reader will gain an insight into how the seemingly undoable can become increasingly doable."--Back cover.
Note Utter Endowment.
LIBRARY HAS vol. 1 ONLY.
Subject Milgram, Stanley.
Milgram, Stanley. fast (OCoLC)fst00019852
Social psychology -- Experiments -- History.
Social psychology -- United States -- Biography.
Obedience -- Psychological aspects.
Human experimentation in psychology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
Ethics. fast (OCoLC)fst00915833
Human experimentation in psychology -- Moral and ethical aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst00963059
Psychological aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01354086
Social psychology. fast (OCoLC)fst01122816
Social psychology -- Experiments. fast (OCoLC)fst01122819
United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
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