Quiet rage: the Stanford prison study by Ken MusenDiscusses a prison simulation experiment conducted in 1971 with students at Stanford University and considers the causes and effects that make prisons such an emotional issue. Documentary includes new film, flashback editing, follow-ups 20-years later, and an original music score; reveals the chronology of the transition of good into evil, of normal into the abnormal. Also includes 70 image slide show of archival photographs from the study.
Call Number: HV 6089 .Q54 2003
Publication Date: 2004
Obedience by Stanley MilgramPresents Stanley Milgram's classic research on obedience to authority through candid footage shot at Yale University in May 1962. Documents both obedient and defiant reactions of subjects who are instructed to administer electric shocks of increasing severity to another person and shows subjects explaining their actions after the experiment.
Call Number: HM 1251 .O24 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Biology and Human Behavior: the neurological origins of individuality by Robert M. SapolskyBiology and Human Behavior: The Neurological Origins of Individuality, 2nd Edition is an interdisciplinary approach to this important subject. In 24 lectures, you investigate how the human brain is sculpted by evolution, constrained or freed by genes, shaped by early experience, modulated by hormones, and otherwise influenced to produce a wide range of behaviors. Little can be explained by thinking about any one of these factors alone because some combination of influences is almost always at work.
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