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Sera
Jan 06, 2011 rated it it was ok
Shelves: own, mystery
Eh, not for me. The story was unique and told in an intelligent way until it outsmarted itself at the end. I'm just glad that it was short. ...more
Amanda
Mar 29, 2011 rated it it was ok
What's supposed to be the central theme of the book - obedience and how it was / can be illustrated in social psychological experiments - is very poorly carried out. I don't really see how Milgram really relates to any of this, besides the surface similarities in that each are studies that involved high amounts of deceptions.

in the book, the study we read about.. well... it's not really very interesting and it didn't really demonstrate much of anything about human behavior. I don't know. Glad I
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Stacy
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