The man who shocked the world [electronic resource] : the life and legacy of Stanley Milgram / Thomas Blass
- Author
- Blass, Thomas
- Published
- New York : Basic Books, c2004.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- xxiv, 360 p., [8] of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- 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.
- Summary
- "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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- ISBN
- 9780738203997 (alk. paper)
0738203998 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-347) and index.
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