How Long to Read Behind the Shock Machine

How Long Does it Take to Read Behind the Shock Machine?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read Behind the Shock Machine by Gina Perry

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause. Milgram reported that fully 65 percent of the volunteers had repeatedly administered electric shocks of increasing strength to a man they believed to be in severe pain, even suffering a life-threatening heart condition, simply because an authority figure had told them to do so. Such behavior was linked to atrocities committed by ordinary people under the Nazi regime and immediately gripped the public imagination. The experiments remain a source of controversy and fascination more than fifty years later. In Behind the Shock Machine, psychologist and author Gina Perry unearths for the first time the full story of this controversial experiment and its startling repercussions. Interviewing the original participants—many of whom remain haunted to this day about what they did—and delving deep into Milgram's personal archive, she pieces together a more complex picture and much more troubling picture of these experiments than was originally presented by Milgram. Uncovering the details of the experiments leads her to question the validity of that 65 percent statistic and the claims that it revealed something essential about human nature. Fleshed out with dramatic transcripts of the tests themselves, the book puts a human face on the unwitting people who faced the moral test of the shock machine and offers a gripping, unforgettable tale of one man's ambition and an experiment that defined a generation.

How long is Behind the Shock Machine?

Behind the Shock Machine by Gina Perry is 354 pages long, and a total of 89,916 words.

This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Behind the Shock Machine Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read Behind the Shock Machine aloud.

What Reading Level is Behind the Shock Machine?

Behind the Shock Machine is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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