1. Introduction to Milgram's research on obedience -- 2. Intuitive accounts of obedience: The role of beliefs and expectations -- 3. The obedience experiments: Theme and variations -- 4. Extensions and replicationsin other laboratories -- 5. What price knowledge? The ethics of the obedience experiments -- 6. Criticisms of method and alternatives to deception in the study of obedience -- 7. Genocide from the perspective of the obedience experiments -- 8. Milgram's theory of obedience: An appraisal -- Epilogue