Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View

First UK edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 224pp. The slightest foxing to head of text block. Jacket a little rubbed and creased to edges. A near fine copy. *** A classic text in psychology, written by American social psychologist Stanley Milgram (1933-1984). The book is based on Milgram’s groundbreaking experiments, conducted in the early 1960s, that showed how ordinary people can commit harmful acts under pressure from authority. The research fundamentally changed how we understand human behavior in the context of power.