Professor Scott Plous

Social Psychology Wesleyan University

FURTHER READINGS AND VIEWINGS

Lecture 3.1: Obedience to Authority (Part 1)

Works Cited or Referred To

(1) Blass, T. (2004). The man who shocked the world: The life and legacy of Stanley
Milgram. New York: Basic Books.

(2) Brief, A. P., Dietz, J., Cohen, R. R., Pugh, S. D., & Vaslow, J. B. (2000). Just doing
business: Modern racism and obedience to authority as explanations for employment
discrimination. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 81, 72-97.

(3) Hofling, C. K., Brotzman, E., Dalrymple, S., Graves, N., & Pierce, C. M. (1966). An
experimental study in nurse-physician relationships. Journal of Nervous and Mental
Disease, 143, 171-180.

(4) Ross, L. (1988). Situationist perspectives on the obedience experiments. Contemporary

Psychology, 33, 101-104.

Related Wikipedia Entries

(1) Hofling Hospital Experiment: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hofling

(2) Obedience: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obedience_(human_behavior)

(3) Milgram Experiment: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Social Psychologists and Other Researchers Mentioned

(1) Thomas Blass: http://blass.socialpsychology.org/

(2) Stanley Milgram: www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_milgram

(3) Lee Ross: http://lee.ross.socialpsychology.org/

Related Links

(1) 50th Anniversary of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments

(2) More on Obedience to Authority (from Social Psychology Network)

Assigned Documentary Videos

(1) Obedience

Courtesy of Alexander Street Press: http://www.alexanderstreet.com/

Bonus Documentary Videos

(1) Stanley Milgram Discusses His Electric Shock Generator

Courtesy of Alexander Street Press: http://www.alexanderstreet.com/

(2) What Was Stanley Milgram Like?

Courtesy of Fordham University: http://www.fordham.edu/