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"Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process."
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Stanley Milgram — Obedience to Authority
Milgram, Obedience to Authority (1974)
Author
Stanley Milgram
Date
1974
Credibility & evidentiary value

Famous (and ethically controversial) experiments on obedience to authority. Core finding is influential; methodology and exact rates have been re-examined and critiqued.

Citation · Chicago

Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (New York: Harper & Row, 1974).

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Scholarly SynthesisAsch, Milgram & the Pull of the Crowd
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