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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to...

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But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have t...

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Obedience to Authority

Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controll...

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Obedience to Authority

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself tha...

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Obedience to Authority

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can be...

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Obedience to Authority

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the un...

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Stanley Milgram

Psychologist

Born: 1933-08-15

Died: 1984-12-20

Stanley Milgram (15 August 1933 – 20 December 1984) was an American social psychologist famous for his controversial study known as the Milgram Experiment on obedience to authority figures, conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale, and for the small-world experiment (the source of the six degrees of separation concept) as part of his dissertation while at Harvard. He also introduced the concept of the familiar stranger.More