The marshmallow test

Adrian Furnham

A chapter in The Engaging Manager, 2012, pp 111-113 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There are some very famous psychological experiments. Perhaps the most famous is that of Stanley Milgram, a Yale University psychologist who, in the early 1960s, showed how nice, ordinary, civilized people would apply lethal electric shocks to helpless psychology experiment participants if they were ordered/instructed to do so. His work was about obedience to authority and how seemingly gullible and naïve (and wicked) we all have the potential to be.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137273871_31

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