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 Stanley Milgram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was a psychologist at Yale University, Harvard University and the City University of New York.
In 1984, Milgram died of a heart attack at the age of 51 in the city of his birth, New York.
Ten years later, in 1974, Milgram published Obedience to Authority and was awarded the annual social psychology award by the AAAS (mostly for his work over the social aspects of obedience).
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 ipedia.com: Milgram experiment Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In Milgram's defense, given the choice between "positive", "neutral" and "negative", 84% of former subjects contacted later rated their role in the experiments as a positive experience and 15% chose neutral.
In one version, Milgram rented a modest office in Bridgeport, Connecticut purpoting to be run by a commercial entity called "Research Associates of Bridgeport" with no apparent connection to Yale, in order to eliminate the prestige of the university as a possible factor influencing subjects' behavior.
Milgram also combined the power of authority with that of conformity.
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 Dr. Thomas Blass Presents - Stanley Milgram .com - Important References   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Milgram's very first account of the findings of his obedience studies appeared in the following article.
Although Milgram conducted his obedience research in 1961-1962, it continues to inspire valuable research and analysis.
Among the chapters is one written by Milgram's widow, Alexandra Milgram.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Stanley Milgram
In 1963, he published the results of his Milgram experiments in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in the article Behavioral study of obedience.
Milgram would no doubt have found vindication in the documented abuses by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib, and the reported abuses there, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Bhagram Airbase.
In the experiment, Milgram sent several letters to random people, asking them to forward a letter, by hand, to someone specific.
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