Spanish daily El País recently published an article on psychologist Stanley Milgram which had this amazing photo of the young conformity researcher where he looks surprisingly beatnick.Sadly the photo isn't dated but it makes quite a contrast to the better known photos where he looks much more like the typical professor of the age.He looks both wonderfully creative and slightly haunted, which see
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July 30, 2010
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January 15, 2010
Psychology researchers aren't paying enough attention to debriefing their participants
Deception was a fundamental part of some of the most famous experiments in psychology - just think of Milgram's obedience studies, in which participants thought they were administering an electric shock, or Asch's conformity research, during which participants were tricked into believing everyone else in the room thought a line was a different length than it was. Although ethical standards have b
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June 8, 2009
Why Group Norms Kill Creativity
· Research shows group members equate creativity with conformity. Creativity is a much coveted asset for a very simple reason: an idea that transcends orthodoxy has the power to bring wealth, fame and status. Commercial, scientific, educational and artistic organisations, therefore, often talk about how they want to foster creativity.Unfortunately groups only rarely foment great [...]» Visi
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May 22, 2009
Asch (1955) Opinions and Social Pressure
This video clip is not taken from the original 1950s experiments but is in fact a ‘made for telly’ version, from I think (guessing at the fashion of the actors). the late 1970s. The acting isn’t bad though.Solomon Asch was interested to find out about conformity and in particular, the circumstances in which people would [...]
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