Double Exposure : : How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies / / Kathryn Millard.

Double Exposure examines the role of film in shaping social psychology’s landmark postwar experiments. We are told that most of us will inflict electric shocks on a fellow citizen when ordered to do so. Act as a brutal prison guard when we put on a uniform. Walk on by when we see a stranger in need....

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (178 p.) :; 23 b&w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Setting the Scene
  • 2. “You’re an Actor Now”
  • 3. New Haven Noir
  • 4. Good or Bad Samaritans?
  • 5. Doing Time
  • 6. Crime Scenes
  • 7. Restaging the Psychology Experiment
  • 8. “I Was the SYSTEM”
  • 9. Shifting the Story
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author