Contesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show.

Understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classic studies from the 1960s and 1970s: Milgram's research on obedience to authority and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. Supporting popular notions of the banality of evil, this research has been taken to show that people...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: S Alexander Haslam, Stephen D Reicher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23185132/pdf/?tool=EBI