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Dr. Sharon Presley received her Ph.D. in social psychology from the City University of New York Graduate Center where her mentor and dissertation chair was Dr. Stanley Milgram, author of the classic study Obedience to Authority.

Dr. Presley is the author of Standing Up to Experts and Authorities: How to Avoid Being Intimidated, Manipulated, and Abused (Solomon Press, 2010) See the book website: http://www.standuptoauthorities.com

She is the co-editor of Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre (SUNY Press, 2005). See http://www.voltairine.org
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Tips for Dealing with Professionals

There are many kinds of professionals that people deal with on a regular basis—from accountants to plumbers, from attorneys to interior decorators. I can’t possibly discuss all the different kinds individually in one blog post. What I can do is give some general guidelines to use as models for the kind of questions you should ask and the approaches you should take. You have to decide which guideli Read more of this blog post »
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