{"id":2982,"date":"2013-08-29T09:27:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"On Aug. 28, the day Dr. Beck gave his Spotlight lecture, the NPR radio news show,\u00a0<em>All Things Considered<\/em>, broadcast an interview with Gina Perry, the author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Behind-Shock-Machine-Psychology-Experiments\/dp\/159558921"},"modified":"2013-08-29T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:27:45","slug":"behind-the-shock-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/2013\/08\/29\/behind-the-shock-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Shock Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 28, the day Dr. Beck gave his Spotlight lecture, the NPR radio news show,\u00a0<em>All Things Considered<\/em>, broadcast an interview with Gina Perry, the author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Behind-Shock-Machine-Psychology-Experiments\/dp\/159558921X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377784828&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=behind+the+shock+machine\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments<\/em><\/a>. In her book, Perry problematizes the Milgram study, detailing how she turned from a Milgram admirer to a critic. In order to balance your understanding of this famous experiment, you can listen to excerpts from the Perry interview on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/08\/28\/209559002\/taking-a-closer-look-at-milgrams-shocking-obedience-study\" target=\"_blank\">NPR website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What kinds of questions does Perry&#8217;s book raise?<\/li>\n<li>Did Milgram&#8217;s personal interest in the question he was exploring compromise his objectivity? If so, does that matter?<\/li>\n<li>Perry notes that the results of the experiment have not been replicated. Does that matter? Why do you think they haven&#8217;t been replicated? Because they weren&#8217;t valid in the first place? Because psychologists now face stricter rules about using human subjects in their experiments?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(*Thanks to Dr. Dickson for finding this story when it aired on Wednesday.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Aug. 28, the day Dr. Beck gave his Spotlight lecture, the NPR radio news show,\u00a0All Things Considered, broadcast an interview with Gina Perry, the author of\u00a0Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments. In her book, Perry problematizes the Milgram study, detailing how she turned from a Milgram admirer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3T2tB-M6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2982\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}