2014 OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY CONFERENCE
Kolomna, Russia

30 years of Social Psychology without Stanley Milgram
40 years of his controversial monograph

Experimental obedience paradigm: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Kolomna, Russia
Dec 9-11, 2014
2014-12-09 10:00:00
 
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Program

Day 1Tuesday, December 9, 2014
11:00 – 12:00

REGISTRATION

foyer of the MGOSGI New building
12:00 – 12:45

CONFERENCE OPENING and WELCOMES

Aleksey B. Mazurov
Rector, Moscow Regional State Institute of Humanities and Social Studies (MGOSGI),
Kolomna City, Russia

Philip Zimbardo
(a childhood friend, a classmate of Stanley Milgram)
Professor, Stanford University, USA
(video address to the conference participants)

Alan Kraut
Executive Director, The Association of Psychological Science (APS)
[co-sponsor of the conference], USA
“Psychological Science Is Important” –
the screening of the 13-minute video, 2012, with the Russian subtitles of Aram Fomichyov (master-psychologist of National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow), uploaded by him at https://db.tt/Gyujqc4E

Alexander Y. Voronov
(сonference co-convener),
Associate professor, State Academic University of the Humanities, Moscow

Regina V. Yershova
(сonference co-convener),
Professor, MGOSGI, Kolomna City

Conference Hall, Main building, Room 402
12:45 – 13:40

Alexander Y. Voronov
Associate professor, State Academic University of the Humanities, Moscow
“Stanley Milgram’s paradigm in the USSR and Russia”

Conference Hall, Main building, Room 402
13:40 – 14:40

LUNCH
Dining room of MGOSGI

14:40 – 15:35

Regina V. Yershova
Professor, MGOSGI, Kolomna City
«“Obedience” in education: the experimental research»

room 19, New building
15:35 – 16:30

Alexander E. Voiskounsky
Leading researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University
“The use of virtual reality systems in psychology:
Virtual reconstruction of Stanley Milgram’s experiments”

room 19, New building
16:30 – 16:55

COFFEE-BREAK
room 19, New building

17:00 – 18:30

“Revisiting the Banality of Evil:
Contemporary Political Violence and the Milgram Experiments”
PLENARY LECTURE
(videoconference session)
Paul Hollander
(keynote speaker),
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst and
Associate, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, USA

room 19, New building
18:30 – 19:00

Discussion of Paul Hollander’s plenary lecture
(videoconference session)

room 19, New building
19:10 – 20:45

“THE GAME OF DEATH/Le Jeu de la Mort, France (2010)”
the full version of the film (with documentary footage)
in French with English subtitles
about the replication of the Milgram’s obedience experiments
in the television game show on the French TV (2010):
the gift of Professor Didier Courbet (France)
as a supplementary illustration to his report at the conference
(abridged 15-minute version of the film – December 10, during his report)

room 19, New building
19:30 – 21:00

To the conference opening
CONCERT OF PIANO MUSIC
Liszt, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Chopin
Performer: pianist and composer, graduate of the Moscow Conservatory and
The Gnessin Moscow high special music school (college)
NIKOLAY VORONOV
Arts centre “Dom Ozerova”: Krasnogvardeiskaya Street, 2
http://www.russianmuseums.info/M809 http://www.domozerova.ru/

Day 2 Wednesday, December 10, 2014
12:10 – 13:40

Didier Courbet
(videoconference session),
Professor, Aix-Marseille University, France
“A transposition of Milgram’s obedience paradigm to the context of TV game show:
Effect of the power of television and
Study of the personality of the obedient and disobedient participants”
(with demonstration of the 15-minute version of the film “Game of Death”)

room 19, New building
13:50 – 14:50

Eugen Tarnow
PhD, Independent Researcher, USA
“Solving the Murder in the Milgram Obedience Experiments:
A Call for Action”

room 19, New building
14:50 – 15:50

LUNCH
Dining room of MGOSGI

15:50 – 16:50

Olga V. Mitina
(presenter),
Leading researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Elena I. Rasskazova
Researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Veronica Sorokina
Senior researcher, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
“Conformity in the structure of personal values and a comparative analysis of its intensity in different social and cultural groups”

room 19, New building
17:00 – 18:00

Edward Erdos
(videoconference session),
PhD, Adjunct Professor at New York Institute of Technology, USA
“The Milgram trap revisited”

room 19, New building
18:00 – 19:00

STANLEY MILGRAM, THE MAN
4th Russian-American Skype psychology videoconference
(2nd video bridge between Kolomna City, and New York City):
Room 19, New building, 30 Zelenaya Street, Kolomna City, Moscow Region –
Room 305 of Fordham University, 113 West 60 Street Manhattan, New York City
Program:
Professor Stanley Milgram’s Colleague (Florence Denmark) and
his alumni (Carla Lewis, Henry Solomon, Harold Takooshian, Jeffrey Shaw)
will share their memories of the Maestro.
Program conveners:
Henry Solomon
Professor, President of the Manhattan Psychological Association
profsolom@aol.com
Regina V. Yershova
Professor, MGOSGI, Kolomna
erchovareg@mail.ru

room 19, New building
19:00 – 19:20

COFFEE-BREAK
room 19, New building

19:20 – 20:20

David Mantell
(videoconference session),
PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
“The Milgram Paradigm as a Measure of Pro-Social Behavior:
Deciding To and Not To Inflict Pain”

room 19, New building
Day 3Thursday, December 11, 2014
10:40 –11:40

Alexander N. Poddiakov
(videoconference session),
Professor, National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (HSE), Moscow
“Comparison of the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments”

room 19, New building
11:40 – 12:10

COFFEE-BREAK
room 19, New building

12:10 – 13:00

Olga V. Mitina
(presenter),
Leading researcher, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
Victor F. Petrenko
Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University
«Image of the ideal political leader or to whom Russians are ready to obey»

room 19, New building
13:00 – 13:50

Sergey S. Stepanov
(videoconference session),
Associate Professor, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education
The topic of the report will be declared later
(about harm of popularization in psychology on the example of a situation with Milgram’s paradigm)

Sergey S. Stepanov’s report may not take place, and in this case it will be replaced by:
Alexander Y. Voronov
Associate Professor, State Academic University of the Humanities, Moscow
MASTER CLASS for teachers and students
“Remake of the Solomon Asch’s classic experiment”

room 19, New building
14:00 – 15:00

SPECIALIST PANEL
EXPERIMENTAL OBEDIENCE PARADIGM: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW
Labeling and mislabeling of the discovery
Possibilities of the applications
Ethical problems
Assessment of current situation around obedience-experiments
Prospects of the further research
Moderator:
Olga V. Mitina
Panelists:
Regina V. Ershova, Alexander N. Poddiakov (videoconference session), Sergey S. Stepanov (videoconference session), Alexander E. Voiskunsky, Alexander Y. Voronov

room 19, New building
15:00 – 16:00

LUNCH
Dining room of MGOSGI

16:00 – 17:00

Stuart Levine
(videoconference session),
Professor of Social Psychology, Emeritus Dean,
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
«“The (continuing) development of the seminar
“Milgram – Obedience to Authority” at Bard College and
a partial array of topics considered in the obedience domain»

room 19, New building
17:00 – 18:00

Ira Chaleff
(videoconference session),
Adjunct faculty, Georgetown University, USA
“Stanley Milgram and Intelligent Disobedience”

room 19, New building
18:00 – 19:00

INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS
and
CONFERENCE CLOSING

room 19, New building
Day 4Friday, December 12, 2014
09:00 – 16:00

DAY OF EXCURSIONS THROUGH THE ANCIENT RUSSIAN CITY OF KOLOMNA

ATTENTION
1. Any changes to the program will be displayed on the Russian and English sites of our conference.
2. Some speakers cannot attend the conference, but they present (as indicated in the program after
their names) reports via video conferencing.

The program will be included to the booklet. 9 of December every participant will get this booklet after payment of the registration fee before the start of the conference.

Feel free to download or print a copy of our conference poster.

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The list of topics of the conference

  • The origins and development of the experimental obedience paradigm.
  • Methodology of Milgram’s and his followers’ obedience experiments.
  • Reasons and mechanisms of the destructive obedience to legitimate authorities in experiments and in reality.
  • Psychological mechanisms of resistance to the destructive obedience to legitimate authorities in experiments and in reality.
  • Lessons from experimental study of the destructive obedience to legitimate authorities.
  • The analysis of applications of study results of the destructive obedience to legitimate authorities to reality.
  • Criticism of research being conducted within the experimental paradigm of obedience.
  • Ethical problems with experimental Social Psychology and, in particular, the obedience experiments.
  • Stanley Milgram’s biography in connection with his experimental obedience paradigm.
  • Stanley Milgram, the man.

Skype psychology teleconference (tele-bridge between Kolomna and New York City):
“Stanley Milgram, the man” (December 10, 2014)

Abstracts of presentations of conference speakers
  • Paul Hollander. Plenary Lecture. Revisiting the Banality of Evil: Contemporary Political Violence and the Milgram Experiments. Download.
  • Didier Courbet, Jean-Léon Beauvois, Laurent Bègue, and Dominique Oberlé. A transposition of Milgram’s obedience paradigm to the context of TV game show. Effect of the power of television and Study of the personality of the obedient and disobedient participants. Download.
  • Florence Denmark. A few words about Stanley Milgram. Download.
  • Edward Erdos. The Milgram trap revisited. Download. YouTube video “The Milgram Trap” of the full text of Edward Erdos’ report at the conference:
    link.
  • Regina V. Ershova. «Obedience» in education: an experimental research. Download.
  • Stuart S. Levine. The сontinuing development of the Milgram-obedience to authority seminar at Bard College and a partial array of topics considered in the obedience domain. Download.
  • Carla S. Lewis. Experimental Beginnings of the Cyranoid: Igniting Our Imaginations. Download.
  • David M. Mantell. The Milgram paradigm as a measure of pro-social behavior: deciding to and not to inflict pain. Download.
  • Olga V. Mitina, Victor Petrenko. Psychosemantic analysis of the image of the ideal political leader. Download.
  • Olga V. Mitina, Elena Rasskazova, Veronika Sorokina. Conformity in the structure of personal values and a comparative analysis of its intensity in different social and cultural groups. Download.
  • Alexander Poddiakov. Comparison of the Milgram and Zimbardo experiments. Download.
  • Harold Takooshian. Annotation of the teleconference “Stanley Milgram, the man”. Download.
  • Eugen Tarnow. Solving the murder in the Milgram obedience experiments: a call for action. Download.
  • Ira Chaleff. Stanley Milgram and intelligent disobedience. Download.
  • Alexander E. Voiskounsky. The use of virtual reality systems in psychology: virtual reconstruction of Stanley Milgram’s experiments. Download.
  • Alexander Y. Voronov. MASTER CLASS: Author’s remake of classical experiment of Solomon Asch (Stanley Milgram’s teacher). Download.
  • Alexander Y. Voronov. Stanley Milgram’s paradigm in the USSR and Russia. Download.

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