Required reading….
- More on the Milgram study (required)
Read about the famous Milgram Obedience experiment in this post: “Milgram’s Experiments and the Perils of Obedience“
- A recent re-interpretation and re-imagination of the classic experiment is described in this Scientific American article, or alternatively in this Nature article.
- What do you think? Are far reaching consequences being drawn on the basis of appropriately solid evidence? Is it clear what the researchers are measuring?
2. Second Person Neuroscience (required)
Schilbach, L., Timmermans, B., Reddy, V., Costall, A., Bente, G., Schlicht, T., & Vogeley, K. (2013). Toward a second-person neuroscience. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(04), 393-414.
3. The importance of real-time reciprocal interaction (required)
Cummins, F. (2014). Voice,(Inter-) Subjectivity, and Real Time Recurrent Interaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(760). (From this special issue on Embodied Intersubjectivity)
Optional resources
Tomasello, M., Hare, B., Lehmann, H., & Call, J. (2007). Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis. Journal of Human Evolution, 52(3), 314-320.
De Jaegher, H., Di Paolo, E., & Gallagher, S. (2010). Can social interaction constitute social cognition?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(10), 441-447.
Here is a first hand report from a guard in the Stanford Prison Experiment.
Milgram’s obedience study: A contentious classic reinterpreted – an up to date overview of recent reconsideration of the original experiment.