TY - JOUR
AU - Persaud, Raj
AB - reviews BOOKS  CD ROMS  ART  WEBSITES  MEDIA  PERSONAL VIEWS  SOUNDINGS The subjects in Milgram’s original series The Man Who Shocked the of tests believed that they were part of an World: The Life and experiment dealing with the relation Legacy of Stanley Milgram between punishment and learning. An experimenter—who used no coercive Thomas Blass powers beyond a stern aura of mechanical Basic Books, and vacant eyed efficiency—instructed par- £15.50/$26/$C40, pp 360 ticipants to shock a learner by pressing a ISBN 0 7382 0399 8 lever on a machine each time the learner Due for publication in made a mistake on a word matching task. paperback next month Each subsequent error led to an increase in Rating: ★★★★ the intensity of the shock in 15 volt increments, from 15 to 450 volts. Actually the shock box was a well crafted prop and the learner an actor who did not receive shocks. Most of the subjects contin- ued to obey to the end—believing that they were delivering life threatening 450 volt shocks—simply because the experimenter he late Stanley Milgram fairly lays commanded them to. Although subjects claim to be one of the greatest were told 
TI - The Man Who Shocked the World: The Life and Legacy of Stanley Milgram
JF - BMJ
DO - 10.1136/bmj.331.7512.356
DA - 2005-08-06
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/british-medical-journal/the-man-who-shocked-the-world-the-life-and-legacy-of-stanley-milgram-zX6xCVWCCN
SP - 356
VL - 331
IS - 7512
DP - DeepDyve
ER -