Obedience and Disobedience - or why (nearly) everything you thought you knew about Milgram is wrong

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Description:	Professor Stephen Reicher's talk Milgrim, From the Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series


Created:	2015-03-10 16:21
Collection:	Seminars and Debates at the Institute of Criminology
Publisher:	University of Cambridge
Copyright:	Meredith Hadfield
Language:	eng (English)


Abstract:	Obedience and Disobedience - or why (nearly) everything you thought you knew about Milgram is wrong Professor Stephen Reicher Professor of Psychology, University of St Andrews Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series This seminar questions the traditional view that people obey toxic authorities through inattention to the consequences of their actions. Instead I present a model of ‘the engaged follower’ whereby people commit harm because they believe that they are doing right. I will support this argument both through historical evidence, archival investigation and a program of new studies which reinterpret Stanley Milgram’s old research. Stephen Reicher is Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews. He is a social psychologist interested in issues of social identity and collective action. His research has covered such topics as crowd action and the bases of crowd violence; leadership and mass political rhetoric, intergroup hatred and the psychology of tyranny. His latest books are ‘The New Psychology of Leadership' (with Alex Haslam and Michael Platow) and ‘Mad Mobs and Englishmen: Myths and Realities of the 2011 Riots’ (with Clifford Stott).

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Obedience and Disobedience - or why (nearly) everything you thought you knew about Milgram is wrong
Professor Stephen Reicher
Professor of Psychology, University of St Andrews

Institute of Criminology Public Seminar Series

This seminar questions the traditional view that people obey toxic authorities through
inattention to the consequences of their actions. Instead I present a model of ‘the engaged
follower’ whereby people commit harm because they believe that they are doing right. I will
support this argument both through historical evidence, archival investigation and a program
of new studies which reinterpret Stanley Milgram’s old research.
Stephen Reicher is Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews. He is a social
psychologist interested in issues of social identity and collective action. His research has
covered such topics as crowd action and the bases of crowd violence; leadership and mass
political rhetoric, intergroup hatred and the psychology of tyranny. His latest books are ‘The
New Psychology of Leadership' (with Alex Haslam and Michael Platow) and ‘Mad Mobs and
Englishmen: Myths and Realities of the 2011 Riots’ (with Clifford Stott).

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