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In controversial experiments, now simply known as the Milgram Experiments, named for the psychologist Stanley Milgram, researchers told “normal” people that they were to punish other volunteers for breaking various rules. And punish them they did, sometimes escalating the punishment to the point of physical abuse. Almost none of the punishers objec
... See moreMark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
The scary thing about Asch’s conformity experiments is that you can get many people to say black is white, if you put them in a room full of other people saying the same thing. The hopeful thing about Asch’s conformity experiments is that a single dissenter tremendously drove down the rate of conformity, even if the dissenter was only giving a diff
... See moreEliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Se Milgram ha ragione nel ritenere che quei suoi minacciosi risultati ci coinvolgono tutti, la domanda diventa spiacevolmente personale: «Che cosa mai può farci fare cose del genere?». Milgram è convinto di avere la risposta. Il fenomeno ha a che fare, secondo lui, con il senso di deferenza verso l’autorità profondamente radicato dentro di noi. Nel
... See moreRobert B. Cialdini • Le armi della persuasione (Orizzonti) (Italian Edition)
Secondo Milgram,3 dai dati così accumulati emerge ripetutamente la prova di un fenomeno agghiacciante: «È l’estrema disponibilità di persone adulte a seguire fino all’estremo l’ordine di un’autorità, quella che rappresenta la principale scoperta di questo studio». È un risultato che implica conseguenze poco rassicuranti per chi è preoccupato della
... See moreRobert B. Cialdini • Le armi della persuasione (Orizzonti) (Italian Edition)
In the summer of 1971, Zimbardo took healthy Stanford students, assigned them roles as either “guards” or “inmates,” and locked them in a makeshift “prison” in the basement of Stanford University. In just days, the “prisoners” began to demonstrate symptoms of depression and extreme stress, while the “guards” began to act cruel and sadistic (the exp
... See moreGreg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
The good news: 68 percent of people willingly gave up their seats upon request. The bad news: conducting the study was—to this day—among the worst, most traumatic experiences his students had had in their lifetimes.