Obedience to Authority

Dr. Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was a social psychologist at Yale University, Harvard University and the City University of New York. While at Harvard, he conducted the small-world experiment (the source of the six degrees of separation concept), and while at Yale, he conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority. He also introduced the concept of familiar strangers.

出版者:HarpPerenM

作者:Stanley Milgram

页数:256

出版时间:2004

价格:USD 14.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780060737283

图书标签:心理学Psychology社会学心理學服从权威社会英文原版政治学

The Milgram experiment was a series of seminal social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.

The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Milgram devised the experiments to answer this question: "Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?"

读后感

作者设计了一系列逻辑严谨的心理学实验来探究人们在权威之下执行伤害他人的实验，最后得出的结论是绝大多数人尽管知道自己的行为是在伤害他人、是不符合道德，也不符合善良正义，但是最终仍然会服从权威犯下恶行。 作者通过多种条件的实验来证明该实验的普遍性和说服力，也从多...  

本书的特点是科学、严谨，具体体现在实验中遵从控制变量法，讨论了在各种情况下权威的影响力是否都有效、是否有增强或减弱。 欣赏后记李关于质疑的回答，以及附录中关于道德问题的说明。 对权威的服从与从中心理在我看来是人类无法避免的本性，也可以理解为人类社群形成并发展...  

后来我一直没能找到那部电影，当时是在央视电影频道看的，关于二战集中营的故事。 看完后，我给朋友发了个短信，说如果我在二战德国的话，很有可能是个像艾希曼这样的一个刽子手。朋友不信，但是我很清楚，我的一个特性决定了如果我在某个岗位会是这样一个人的。 这部电影中，...  

读完这本《对权威的服从》，我和著作者一样都对这个实验结果失望不已。人们是那么服从权威，又那么难以反抗。可是当我们愤愤不平指责那些历史罪人，尤其是“刽子手”身份的人时，读完这本书，也不免产生了一丝的同情和怜悯。 犯错的究竟是谁？如果仅仅只是权威人物发号施令，但...  

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第一次一天读完一本英文书，也是读过最负能量的一本书。我个人更倾向于服从是个人道德感中的个体层面让步于集体层面的一个例子。从进化的观念讲，这种群体道德感也是有利于群体延续的。下一步应该思考的是权威的服从者应该承担多少责任？另外，我不太认同作者的实验伦理。他认为这种情感压力是被者的个人选择的结果，而我认为这种压力恰恰在于被试者需要做出选择本身。真是既无beneficiary也无consentment。

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