This site provides access to several papers by Dr. Brannigan and co-authors. The top section includes some recent papers. Some classic papers are identified at the bottom of the page. A full list of publications and presentations can be found in Dr B's CV. Recent books have been added at the bottom of the page.
A re-analysis of an unpublished test by Milgram's research assistant. This became one of the 10 most downloaded publications from Social Psychology Quarterly when it went online in August 2019.
This is based on archival work by Dr. Gina Perry
This reports re-analyses of classic experiments based on the archival records of how they were conducted.
This chapter illustrates the difficulties of making dictators and war criminals liable to individual accountability under international law.
This chapter is an analysis of how the scientific estimation of risk to the public, workers and the environment can be undermined by market forces.
This is a summary of "The Replication Crisis" (Chapter 10) from The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Model in Social Psychology (Routledge 2021)
Retraction Watch Coverage of Replication Crisis in Social Psychology
Professors Brannigan and Zwerman offer a novel re-interpretation for the enormous attraction of the alleged change in productivity recorded in the classic Hawthorne studies.
My first article in the new field of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge was a critical re-evaluation of the early history of genetics.
This was another fruitful collaboration between Professors Brannigan and Wanner on an intriguing issue in the history of science - multiple discoveries. Our view was that good communication tended to prevent their occurrence. We demonstrated this through what appears to have been the first negative binomial distribution in sociology.
How are collective crimes such as genocide and crimes against humanity understood in contemporary criminology? An attempt to answer this question was undertaken with field work tens years after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This book examined the responses to genocide found in criminal courts, both national and international, as well as responses based on compensation and truth and reconciliation processes.
In the 1950s and 1960s social psychology made a strategic move in terms of methodology: it adopted the experiment as the key approach to unpacking the complexities of social life. The result was a period of dramatic studies -- Sherif, Milgram, Zimbardo -- which employed deception of human subjects and often exposed them to trauma. In retrospect the results were foregone conclusions and failed to stand the test of time.
The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method in Social Psychology