Behind The Shock Machine The Untold Story Of The Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments

Gina Perry

When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. "When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation the results would cause. Milgram reported that the volunteers had repeatedly shocked a man they believed to be in severe pain, possibly even dying, because an authority figure had told them to, and he linked this behavior to atrocities perpetrated by ordinary people under the Nazi regime. In Behind the Shock Machine, noted psychologist and author Gina Perry unearths for the first time the full story of this controversial experiment and its startling repercussions....