⚁ A.7 Stanley Milgram: A selected review of the literature.

William Tillier


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⚂ Abbott, A. (2016). Modern Milgram experiment sheds light on power of authority. Nature , 530 (7591), 394–395. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.19408.

⚂ Baumrind, D. (2015). When subjects become objects: The lies behind the Milgram legend. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 690–696. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315592062.

⚂ Blass, T. (Ed.) (2000). Obedience to authority: Current perspectives on the Milgram paradigm. Psychology Press.

⚂ Brannigan, A., Nicholson, I., & Cherry, F. (2015). Introduction to the special issue: Unplugging the Milgram machine. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 551–563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315604408.

⚂ Brannigan, A., & Unger, M. P. (2015). Understanding the unthinkable. Theory & Psychology , 25 (261), 697–700. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315590436.

⚂ Brown, W., Gordon, P. E., & Pensky, M. (2018). Authoritarianism: Three inquiries in critical theory. Trios.

⚂ Caspar, E. A., Beyer, F., Cleeremans, A., & Haggard, P. (2021). The obedient mind and the volitional brain: A neural basis for preserved sense of agency and sense of responsibility under coercion. PLOS ONE, 16 (10), e0258884. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258884.

⚂ Dolinski, D., Taylor & Francis Group, & Grzyb, T. (2020). The social psychology of obedience towards authority: An empirical tribute to Stanley Milgram. Routledge.

⚂ Eldred, T. W. (2023). Revisiting Stanley Milgram ’s obedience to authority: An engaged followership perspective on legal ethics. In J. Webb, Leading works in legal ethics (1st ed., pp. 207-225). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003015093-13

⚂ Eren Yavuz, K., & Tarlac, S. (2023). Neurobiology of the Milgram Obedience Experiment. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10199797

⚂ Fenigstein, A. (2015). Milgram’s shock experiments and the Nazi perpetrators: A contrarian perspective on the role of obedience pressures during the Holocaust. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 581–598. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315601904.

⚂ Gibson, S. (2017). Developing psychology’s archival sensibilities: Revisiting Milgram’s ‘obedience’ experiments. Qualitative Psychology , 4 (1), 73–89. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000040.

⚂ Gibson, S. (2019). Arguing, obeying and defying: A rhetorical perspective on Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments. Cambridge University Press.

⚂ Gibson, S. (2022). “We have a choice:” Identity construction and the rhetorical enactment of resistance in the “two peers rebel” condition of Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52 (3), 391–404. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2734

⚂ Griggs, R. A., & Whitehead, G. I. (2015). Coverage of recent criticisms of Milgram’s obedience experiments in introductory social psychology textbooks. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 564–580. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315601231.

⚂ Grzyb, T., & Dolinski, D. (2023). You and I are alike, so I will hold back – The effect of directed empathy on the behavior of participants of Stanley Milgram’s obedience paradigm. Acta Psychologica, 234, 103859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.103859

⚂ Grzyb, T., Maj, K., & Dolinski, D. (2023). Obedience to robot. Humanoid robot as an experimenter in Milgram paradigm. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 1 (2), 100010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2023.100010

⚂ Hoffman, E., Myerberg, N. R., & Morawski, J. G. (2015). Acting otherwise: Resistance, agency, and subjectivities in Milgram’s studies of obedience. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 670–689. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315608705.

⚂ Hollander, P. (2016). Revisiting the banality of evil: Contemporary political violence and the Milgram experiments. Society , 53 (1), 56–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-015-9973-4.

⚂ Hollander, M. M., & Turowetz, J. (2023). Morality in the making of sense and self: Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments and the new science of morality. Oxford University Press.

⚂ Hwang, J. J. (2023). The impact of individual differences and personality on obedience. Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, 8, 1384-1389. https://doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v8i.4491

⚂ Kaposi, D. (2017). The resistance experiments: Morality, authority and obedience in Stanley Milgram’s account. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour , 47 (4), 382–401. https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12137.

⚂ Kaposi, D. (2022). The second wave of critical engagement with Stanley Milgram’s “obedience to authority” experiments: What did we learn? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16 (6). https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12667.

⚂ Kranebitter, A., & Reinprecht, C. (2023). Authoritarianism, ambivalence, ambiguity: The life and work of Else Frenkel-Brunswik. Introduction to the Special Issue. Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, (1-2), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.7146/serendipities.v7i1-2.135380

⚂ Kulig, T. C., Pratt, T. C., & Cullen, F. T. (2017). Revisiting the Stanford prison experiment: A case study in organized skepticism. Journal of Criminal Justice Education , 28 (1), 74–111. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2016.1165855.

⚂ Mastroianni, G. R. (2015). Obedience in perspective: Psychology and the Holocaust. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 657–669. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315608963.

⚂ Meyer, M. (2021). Putting the onus on authority: A review of obedient behavior and why we should move on. New Ideas in Psychology, 60, 100831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2020.100831.

⚂ Milgram, S. (2009). Obedience to authority: An experimental view. HarperCollins.

⚂ Nicholson, I. (2015). The normalization of torment: Producing and managing anguish in Milgram’s “Obedience” laboratory. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 639–656. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315605393.

⚂ Oppenheimer, M. (2015). Designing obedience in the lab: Milgram’s shock simulator and human factors engineering. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 599–621. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315605392.

⚂ Perry, G. (2015). Seeing is believing: The role of the film Obedience in shaping perceptions of Milgram’s Obedience to Authority experiments. Theory & Psychology , 25 (5), 622–638. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354315604235.

⚂ Perry, G., (2013). Behind the shock machine: The untold story of the notorious Milgram psychology experiments. New York, NY: The New Press.

⚂ Perry, G., Brannigan, A., Wanner, R. A., & Stam, H. (2020). Credibility and incredulity in Milgram’s obedience experiments: A reanalysis of an unpublished test. Social Psychology Quarterly, 83 (1), 88–106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272519861952.

⚂ Russell, N. (2018). Understanding willing participants, volume 1: Milgram’s obedience experiments and the Holocaust. Palgrave Macmillan.

⚂ Russell, N., & Gregory, R. (2021). Are Milgram’s obedience studies internally valid? Critique and counter-critique. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 09 (02), 65–93. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2021.92005.

⚂ Turowetz, J., & Hollander, M. M. (2018). From “ridiculous” to “glad to have helped”: debriefing news delivery and improved reactions to science in Milgram’s “obedience” experiments. Social Psychology Quarterly, 81 (1), 71–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272518759968.

⚂ Vials, C. (March/April, 2017). A must read for the present crisis: Adorno's The authoritarian personality . Against the Current, 187, 6-8.

⚂ Violato, E., & King, S. (2021). Obedience to authority: an introduction for healthcare educators, researchers, and professionals. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3981839.

⚂ Walker, D. (2022). Obeying authority: Should we trust them or not? Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-022-09691-7

⚂ Werhane, P. H., Hartman, L. P., & Archer, C. (2013). Obstacles to ethical decision-making: Mental models, Milgram and the problem of obedience. Cambridge University Press.

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