The best part of my job is that I’m always learning something new. Recently, I was employed by a health department inOntarioto do some lit reviews and one of the topics concerned “Low Germans”, more formally referred to as those who are Low-German-speaking. Of course I knew a bit about Mennonites and the Amish (the … Continue reading »
Nov
07
A relook at the Milgram obedience experiment: are we all capable of being Nazis?
If you ever took first year psychology – or read any popular psychology – then you’re probably familiar with the obedience studies conducted by Stanley Milgram at Yale in the early 1960s. Inspired in part by the horrors of the Holocaust, Milgram wanted to assess whether some nationalities are more willing than others to obey … Continue reading »