A Selection:
Blass, T. (1984). Social psychology and personality: Toward a convergence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 47, 1013-1027. (
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Blass, T. (1991). Understanding behavior in the Milgram obedience experiment: The role of personality, situations, and their interactions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 60, 398-413. (
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Blass, T. (1992). The social psychology of Stanley Milgram. In
M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol.
25, pp. 277-329. (
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Blass, T. (1993). Psychological perspectives on the perpetrators of the Holocaust: The role of situational pressures, personal dispositions, and their interactions. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 7, 30-50. (
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Blass, T. (1994). Stanley Milgram (1933-1984). In R. Corsini (Ed.), Encyclopedia of psychology, Second edition. New York: Wiley.
Blass, T. (1995). Right-Wing Authoritarianism and role as predictors of attributions about obedience to authority. Personality and Individual Differences, 19, 99-100. (
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Krackow, A., & Blass, T. (1995). When nurses obey or defy inappropriate physician orders: Attributional differences. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 10, 585-594. (
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Blass, T. (1996). Stanley Milgram: A life of inventiveness and controversy. In G. Kimble, A. Boneau, & M. Wertheimer (Eds.), Portraits of pioneers in psychology, Vol. 2. Washington, D.C. and Hillsdale, NJ: American Psychological Association and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Blass, T. (1996). The Milgram obedience experiment: Support for a cognitive view of defensive attribution. Journal of Social Psychology, 136, 407-410. (
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Blass, T. (1996). Attribution of responsibility and trust in Milgram's obedience experiment. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26, 1529-1535. (
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Blass, T. (1998). The roots of Milgram's obedience experiments
and their relevance to the Holocaust. Analyse & Kritik, 20,
46-53. (Invited article) (
PDF file.)
Blass, T. (1999). Stanley Milgram. In J. A. Garraty (Ed.), American
National Biography. Cary, NC: Oxford University Press and American
Council of Learned Societies. (Invited article)
Blass, T. (1999). The Milgram paradigm after 35 years: Some things
we now know about obedience to authority. Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, 29, 955-978.(
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Blass, T. (Ed.), (2000). Obedience to authority: Current perspectives
on the Milgram paradigm. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Blass, T. (2000). Stanley Milgram (1933-1984). Encyclopedia of Psychology. American Psychological Association. (Invited article)
Blass, T. & Schmitt, C. (2001). The nature of perceived authority in the Milgram paradigm: Two replications. Current Psychology, 20, 115-121. (Invited submission) (
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Blass, T. (2001, Spring). Stanley Milgram and leadership. Effect, pp. 7-8.
Blass, T. (2002). Perpetrator behavior as destructive obedience: An evaluation of Stanley Milgram's perspective, the most influential social-psychological approach to the Holocaust. In L. Newman & R. Erber (Eds.). Understanding genocide: The social psychology of the Holocaust. Oxford University Press. (Invited chapter)
Blass, T. (2002, March/April). The man who shocked the world. Psychology Today, pp. 68-74. (
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Blass, T. (2005). The urban psychology of Stanley Milgram. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 14, 12-22 (Invited article). (
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Blass, T. (2007). Milgram’s obedience to authority studies. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology, Vol. 2, 568-571. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (Invited article).
Blass, T. (2008). Obedience, destructive . In W.A. Darity (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., Vol. 6, 2-3. Detroit: Macmillan Reference (Invited article). (
PDF file.)
Blass, T. (2008). Milgram, Stanley. The Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. 23, 136-143. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons (Invited article).
Blass, T. (2008). What can Milgram’s obedience experiments contribute to our understanding of followership? In R. Riggio, et al. (Eds.), The art of followership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (Invited chapter).
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