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    The Macat Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority

    by Mark Gridley ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 43 min

    Milgram’s book describes the landmark psychology experiment he conducted as a young researcher at Yale in the 1960s. He recruited volunteers to give “electric shocks” to learners whenever they answered a question wrong. The volunteers didn’t know these subjects were not actually being shocked. To widespread surprise, Milgram reported that 40 to 65 percent of his volunteers did what the researcher ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority

    An Experimental View

    by Mark Gridley, William J. Jenkins ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic sense of creative imagination – casting new light on social phenomena in the process. His 1974 study Obedience to Authority exemplifies creative ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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  • The Man Who Shocked The World

    The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram

    by Thomas Blass ...
    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 sparkling biography-the first in-depth portrait of Milgram-Thomas Blass captures the colorful personality and pioneering work of a social psychologist who profoundly altered the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman's Judgment under Uncertainty

    Heuristics and Biases

    by Camille Morvan, William J. Jenkins ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman’s 1974 paper ‘Judgement Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases’ is a landmark in the history of psychology. Though a mere seven pages long, it has helped reshape the study of human rationality, and had a particular impact on economics – where Tversky and Kahneman’s work helped shape the entirely new sub discipline of ‘behavioral economics.’The paper investigates ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve

    Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

    by Christine Ma, Michael Schapira ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.The authors’ central contention is that intelligence is the primary factor determining social outcomes for individuals – and that it is a better predictor of achievement than income, background or socioeconomic status. One of the major issues ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Roots of Evil

    The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence

    by Ervin Staub ...
    How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focusing particularly on genocide, Erwin Staub explores the psychology of group aggression. He sketches a conceptual framework for the many influences on one group's desire to harm another and within this framework, considers four historical examples of genocide. ... Read more

    $60.69 USD

  • An Analysis of Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow

    by Jacqueline Allan ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman offers a general audience access to over six decades of insight and expertise from a Nobel Laureate in an accessible and interesting way. Kahneman’s work focuses largely on the problem of how we think, and warns of the dangers of trusting to intuition – which springs from “fast” but broad and emotional thinking – rather than engaging in the slower, harder ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Why Men Rebel

    by Ted Robert Gurr ...
    Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 after a decade of political violence across the world. Forty years later, serious conflicts continue in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Ted Robert Gurr reintroduces us to his landmark work, putting it in context with the research it influenced as well as world events. Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Obedience to Authority

    Current Perspectives on the Milgram Paradigm

    Edited by Thomas Blass ...
    Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority are among the most important psychological studies of this century. Perhaps because of the enduring significance of the findings--the surprising ease with which ordinary persons can be commanded to act destructively against an innocent individual by a legitimate authority--it continues to claim the attention of psychologists and other social ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Open Mind

    Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

    by Jamie Cohen-Cole ...
    This study chronicles the rise of psychology as a tool for social analysis during the Cold War Era and the concept of the open mind in American culture.In the years following World War II, a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self took hold as an essential way of understanding society. In The Open Mind, science historian Jamie Cohen-Cole demonstrates how this notion of the ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect

    Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

    by Alexander O’Connor ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    What makes good people capable of committing bad – even evil – acts? Few psychologists are as well-qualified to answer that question as Philip Zimbardo, a psychology professor who was not only the author of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment – which asked two groups of students to assume the roles of prisoners and guards in a makeshift jail, to dramatic effect – but also an active participant ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Gordon W. Allport's The Nature of Prejudice

    by Alexander O’Connor ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    With his 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice, American psychologist Gordon Allport displays the crucial skill of reasoning, producing and organizing an argument that was persuasive enough to have a major impact not only in universities, but also on government policy.The question that Allport tackled was an old one: why are people so disposed to prejudice against those from other groups? Earlier ... Read more

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