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Blass Writes on Milgram: Obedience studies and understanding human behaviour

Milgram‘s obedience studies remain a classic research topic amongst investigators of human behaviour. A powerful implication of his work has been the acceptance of situational effects as attenuating individual choices of social behaviour.

Blass (1991) has published a paper that reviews Milgram’s Paradigm across a selection of studies. Understanding behavior in the Milgram Obedience Experiment: The role of personality, situations and their interaction

This is the article here: http://www.stanleymilgram.com pdf/understanding%20behavoir.pdf

The paper points to a growing body of evidence that views personality as a reliable predictor of obedience behaviours.

Psychological perspectives on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: … was published by Blass in 1993. The critical review contrasts three explanations of human behaviour.

It can be read here.

Social psychology, personal disposition and interactional theory identify the psychological mechanism/s  that can “transform” the average person to one who will enact and tolerate cruelty toward others. Overall, Blass notes an over-emphasis on situational variables as stimulus for social behaviour.

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2 Responses to “Blass Writes on Milgram: Obedience studies and understanding human behaviour”

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    Shelby Lade Says:

    This is exactly what I was searching for on bing, I guess I got my answer! lol

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