Blogs about: Milgram
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CITI update, and broader thoughts on ethics training and behavioral research
Yesterday after I emailed the CITI program about their continuing misrepresentation of Milgram, I got an email back from them apologizing and promising a revision (deja vu?). This time, I have asked t… more →
The Hardest Science
The role of Social Networking in promoting products
wrote 2 weeks ago: Companies, since the dawn of digital marketing, have been buying and using advertisements on the web … more →
Be Your Own Puppeteer
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Social Complexity - What does it mean?
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Now and then there are debates whether the organizations should be thought of as “simple … more →
The Milgram Experiment
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wrote 1 month ago: “The experiments began in July 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi … more →
Character & Mental Toughness - Boston
wrote 1 month ago: Just at a loss. I check and make sure the people I know who have gone there are ok. I watch the news … more →
Day 236: Weapons of Influence: Obedience to Authority
wrote 1 month ago: . The best place to start is at birth and growing up in a family with, usually, two figures of autho … more →
Compliance with Authority and The Strip Search Prank Call Scam
wrote 1 month ago: Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment demonstrated the power of authority to compel individuals … more →
What Would You Do if You Witnessed a Murder?
wrote 2 months ago: This may come as a surprise to most, but in psychology it is widely assumed that when witnessing a c … more →
Obeying Authority and the Rule of Thirds
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wrote 2 months ago: Half a century ago Adolf Eichmann was captured and taken from Argentina to an Israeli civilian court … more →
Spank Me
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wrote 2 months ago: While some of you might read that title as bedroom talk, especially in the wake of the Fifty Shades … more →
Outline of Gamson et al (1982), Milgram (1963) and Latane & Wolf
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wrote 2 months ago: Gamson, Fireman and Rytina (1982) Aim: The aim of the study was to create a situation in which parti … more →
We Do What We're Told
wrote 3 months ago: Recently watched Compliance, which is something I’ve been wanting to do since reading about th … more →
Surviving Death
wrote 3 months ago: How comedians can die on stage but live to gig another day. Andy Haggerstone (Durham University) You … more →
2/7 Word of the Day/Class Starter Longitudinal Study vs. Cross-sectional Study
wrote 3 months ago: Word of the Day -Longitudinal study (study the same group over a long period of time) vs. Cross-sect … more →
Why Obedience is Not Always Good
wrote 3 months ago: If an authority figure told you to harm another person by administering 450v-shocks, would you do it … more →
Compliance by Craig Zobel
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wrote 3 months ago: Some people think prank phone calls are funny, I don’t think so, they are nothing but psycholo … more →
The Pickle Principle
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wrote 4 months ago: “Cucumbers get more pickled than brine gets cucumbered.” [link] It’s not just Deming tha … more →
Centaur
wrote 4 months ago: In 1963,[1] Stanley Milgram showed that 65% of us are capable of administering a fatal electric shoc … more →
My Wife and Kids…and my Drone
wrote 4 months ago: It’s hard for a writer to know when to weigh-in on a topic. I have followed the debate about the US … more →
