Stanley Milgram
Biographic Data
| ID | 272128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley Milgram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Milgram |
| SIGNATURE | MILGRAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1004 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Obedience to authority
Violence in War and Peace
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Response to intrusion into waiting lines
Letters from readers
Candid Camera
The individual in a social world
An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem
Subject Reaction
Conditions of rapid processing often drive polymers to adopt nonequilibrium molecular conformations, which, in turn, can give rise to structural, dynamical, and mechanical properties that are significantly different from those in thermodynamic equilibrium. However, despite the possibility to control the desired nonequilibrium properties of polymers, a rigorous microscopic understanding of the processing-property relations is currently lacking. In…
Letters from readers
The image-freezing machine
Television and Anti-Social Behavior
Das Milgram-Experiment
Acquaintance networks between racial groups
"Comment on "A Failure to Validate the Lost Letter Technique
Journal Article COMMENT ON "A FAILURE TO VALIDATE THE LOST LETTER TECHNIQUE" Get access STANLEY MILGRAM STANLEY MILGRAM *Stanley Milgram is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center of The City UniversityofNew York and senior author (with Leon Mann and Susan Harter) of "The Lost Letter Technique: A Tool of Social Research,_" Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. so,, 1965, pp. 437-438. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem
Arbitrarily selected individuals (N=296) in Nebraska and Boston are asked to generate acquaintance chains to a target person in Massachusetts, employing “the small world method” (Milgram, 1967). Sixty-four chains reach the target person. Within this group the mean number of intermediaries between starters and targets is 5.2. Boston starting chains reach the target person with fewer intermediaries than those starting in Nebraska; subpopulations in…
Note on the drawing power of crowds of different size
This study reports on the relationship between the size of stimulus crowd, standing on busy city street looking up at building, and the response of passersby. As the size of the stimulus crowd was increased greater proportion of passersby adopted the behavior of the crowd. The results of this study suggest modification of the Coleman and James model of the size of freeforming groups to include contagion assumption. Ill typical urban setting, when…
The compulsion to do evil
Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority
The Lost-Letter Technique
Journal Article THE LOST-LETTER TECHNIQUE: A TOOL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Get access STANLEY MILGRAM, STANLEY MILGRAM Stanley Milgram undertook this study while an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He now teaches in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University. Leon Mann and Susan Harter studied at Yale. Dr. Mann now teaches at the University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Liberating effects of group pressure
A study of constructive conformity. Experimental studies have generally pointed to the negative effects of group pressure. The present experiment shows that in specifiable circumstances group pressure enables a person to resolve conflicting forces in a direction congruent with his values. In Exp. I Ss are instructed to administer increasingly more severe shocks to a victim. In Exp. II, 2 confederates who defy E's authority are introduced into thi…
Issues in the study of obedience
OBEDIENCE serves numerous productive func-tions in society. It may be ennobling and edu-cative and entail acts of charity and kindness. Yet the problem of destructive obedience, because it is the most disturbing expression of obedience in our time, and because it is the most perplexing, merits intensive study. In its most general terms, the problem of destructive obedience may be defined thus: If X tells Y to hurt Z, under what conditions will Y …
Group pressure and action against a person
A distinction is made between action conformity and signal conformity; the former refers to group-induced behavior that has more than an informational impact on the environment. A study of action conformity is described in which the effects of group pressure are measured by comparing the amount of electric shock administered by a naive S to a person, under experimental and control conditions. In the experimental condition the S performs in the mi…
Behavioral Study of obedience
This article describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. It consists of ordering a naive S to administer increasingly more severe punishment to a victim in the context of a learning experiment. Punishment is administered by means of a shock generator with 30 graded switches ranging from Slight Shock to Danger: Severe Shock. The victim is a confederate of the E. The primary dependent variable is the maximum shoc…
The growth of logical thinking
Behavioral Study of obedience
This article describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. It consists of ordering a naive S to administer increasingly more severe punishment to a victim in the context of a learning experiment. Punishment is administered by means of a shock generator with 30 graded switches ranging from Slight Shock to Danger: Severe Shock. The victim is a confederate of the E. The primary dependent variable is the maximum shoc…
Violence in War and Peace
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority
An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem
Arbitrarily selected individuals (N=296) in Nebraska and Boston are asked to generate acquaintance chains to a target person in Massachusetts, employing “the small world method” (Milgram, 1967). Sixty-four chains reach the target person. Within this group the mean number of intermediaries between starters and targets is 5.2. Boston starting chains reach the target person with fewer intermediaries than those starting in Nebraska; subpopulations in…
Obedience to authority
Note on the drawing power of crowds of different size
This study reports on the relationship between the size of stimulus crowd, standing on busy city street looking up at building, and the response of passersby. As the size of the stimulus crowd was increased greater proportion of passersby adopted the behavior of the crowd. The results of this study suggest modification of the Coleman and James model of the size of freeforming groups to include contagion assumption. Ill typical urban setting, when…
The Lost-Letter Technique
Journal Article THE LOST-LETTER TECHNIQUE: A TOOL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Get access STANLEY MILGRAM, STANLEY MILGRAM Stanley Milgram undertook this study while an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He now teaches in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University. Leon Mann and Susan Harter studied at Yale. Dr. Mann now teaches at the University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Acquaintance networks between racial groups
Liberating effects of group pressure
A study of constructive conformity. Experimental studies have generally pointed to the negative effects of group pressure. The present experiment shows that in specifiable circumstances group pressure enables a person to resolve conflicting forces in a direction congruent with his values. In Exp. I Ss are instructed to administer increasingly more severe shocks to a victim. In Exp. II, 2 confederates who defy E's authority are introduced into thi…
Group pressure and action against a person
A distinction is made between action conformity and signal conformity; the former refers to group-induced behavior that has more than an informational impact on the environment. A study of action conformity is described in which the effects of group pressure are measured by comparing the amount of electric shock administered by a naive S to a person, under experimental and control conditions. In the experimental condition the S performs in the mi…
Response to intrusion into waiting lines
The compulsion to do evil
"Comment on "A Failure to Validate the Lost Letter Technique
Journal Article COMMENT ON "A FAILURE TO VALIDATE THE LOST LETTER TECHNIQUE" Get access STANLEY MILGRAM STANLEY MILGRAM *Stanley Milgram is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center of The City UniversityofNew York and senior author (with Leon Mann and Susan Harter) of "The Lost Letter Technique: A Tool of Social Research,_" Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. so,, 1965, pp. 437-438. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
Candid Camera
The image-freezing machine
The growth of logical thinking
Behavioral Study of obedience
This article describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. It consists of ordering a naive S to administer increasingly more severe punishment to a victim in the context of a learning experiment. Punishment is administered by means of a shock generator with 30 graded switches ranging from Slight Shock to Danger: Severe Shock. The victim is a confederate of the E. The primary dependent variable is the maximum shoc…
Issues in the study of obedience
OBEDIENCE serves numerous productive func-tions in society. It may be ennobling and edu-cative and entail acts of charity and kindness. Yet the problem of destructive obedience, because it is the most disturbing expression of obedience in our time, and because it is the most perplexing, merits intensive study. In its most general terms, the problem of destructive obedience may be defined thus: If X tells Y to hurt Z, under what conditions will Y …
Group pressure and action against a person
A distinction is made between action conformity and signal conformity; the former refers to group-induced behavior that has more than an informational impact on the environment. A study of action conformity is described in which the effects of group pressure are measured by comparing the amount of electric shock administered by a naive S to a person, under experimental and control conditions. In the experimental condition the S performs in the mi…
Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority
The Lost-Letter Technique
Journal Article THE LOST-LETTER TECHNIQUE: A TOOL OF SOCIAL RESEARCH Get access STANLEY MILGRAM, STANLEY MILGRAM Stanley Milgram undertook this study while an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He now teaches in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard University. Leon Mann and Susan Harter studied at Yale. Dr. Mann now teaches at the University of Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Liberating effects of group pressure
A study of constructive conformity. Experimental studies have generally pointed to the negative effects of group pressure. The present experiment shows that in specifiable circumstances group pressure enables a person to resolve conflicting forces in a direction congruent with his values. In Exp. I Ss are instructed to administer increasingly more severe shocks to a victim. In Exp. II, 2 confederates who defy E's authority are introduced into thi…
The compulsion to do evil
"Comment on "A Failure to Validate the Lost Letter Technique
Journal Article COMMENT ON "A FAILURE TO VALIDATE THE LOST LETTER TECHNIQUE" Get access STANLEY MILGRAM STANLEY MILGRAM *Stanley Milgram is Professor of Psychology at the Graduate Center of The City UniversityofNew York and senior author (with Leon Mann and Susan Harter) of "The Lost Letter Technique: A Tool of Social Research,_" Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. so,, 1965, pp. 437-438. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem
Arbitrarily selected individuals (N=296) in Nebraska and Boston are asked to generate acquaintance chains to a target person in Massachusetts, employing “the small world method” (Milgram, 1967). Sixty-four chains reach the target person. Within this group the mean number of intermediaries between starters and targets is 5.2. Boston starting chains reach the target person with fewer intermediaries than those starting in Nebraska; subpopulations in…
Note on the drawing power of crowds of different size
This study reports on the relationship between the size of stimulus crowd, standing on busy city street looking up at building, and the response of passersby. As the size of the stimulus crowd was increased greater proportion of passersby adopted the behavior of the crowd. The results of this study suggest modification of the Coleman and James model of the size of freeforming groups to include contagion assumption. Ill typical urban setting, when…
Acquaintance networks between racial groups
Das Milgram-Experiment
Television and Anti-Social Behavior
The image-freezing machine
The individual in a social world
An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem
Subject Reaction
Conditions of rapid processing often drive polymers to adopt nonequilibrium molecular conformations, which, in turn, can give rise to structural, dynamical, and mechanical properties that are significantly different from those in thermodynamic equilibrium. However, despite the possibility to control the desired nonequilibrium properties of polymers, a rigorous microscopic understanding of the processing-property relations is currently lacking. In…
Letters from readers
Candid Camera
Letters from readers
Response to intrusion into waiting lines
Violence in War and Peace
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Obedience to authority
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