The Milgram Paradigm After 35 Years: Some Things We Now Know About Obedience to Authority†

  1. Thomas Blass*

Article first published online: 31 JUL 2006

DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb00134.x

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Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volume 29, Issue 5, pages 955–978, May 1999

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Blass, T. (1999), The Milgram Paradigm After 35 Years: Some Things We Now Know About Obedience to Authority. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 29: 955–978. doi: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb00134.x

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  1. University of Maryland Baltimore County

* Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Thomas Blass, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County. 1000 Hilltop Circle. Baltimore, MD 21250. e-mail: blass@umbc2.umbc.edu.

  • †

    Quotes from letters and most information given without citation are from the Stanley Milgram Papers, Yale University Archives. I want to express my thanks to Annamarie Krackow for her help with some of the analyses presented in this article.

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Guided by the belief that we cannot make broad extrapolations from the obedience studies without first firmly establishing what has and has not been found using the paradigm itself, this article draws on 35 years of accumulated research and writings on the obedience paradigm to present a status report on the following salient questions and issues surrounding obedience to authority: (a) How should we construe the nature of authority in the obedience experiment? (b) Do predictions of those unfamiliar with the obedience experiment underestimate the actual obedience rates? (c) Are there gender differences in obedience? and (d) Have obedience rates changed over time?

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