If those words sound a bit ominous, it may be because you have at least a passing familiarity with “the most famous, or infamous, study in the annals of scientific psychology.” We’re talking about ...

Adolf Eichmann’s trial for Nazi war crimes captivated the world in 1961. Coolly, and without regret, Eichmann acknowledged the horrors he had committed, defending them as the acts of an obedient ...

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Fifty years ago Stanley Milgram published his book Obedience to Authority, which described what have arguably become the most famous experiments in psychology. As the book detailed, an experimenter ...

In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram set out to see whether ordinary people would administer painful shocks to a stranger if told to do so by someone in a white lab coat. He found that most people (65 ...

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More than 50 years ago, American social psychologist Stanley Milgram found that, when prodded by someone in charge, just about every one of us would do something that most would find deeply disturbing ...

The playfully dead-serious drama Experimenter depicts the life of Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard), the Yale social scientist who, in 1961, directed his subjects (“teachers”) to deliver shocks of ...

Nay, if we continually flee from trouble, we must also flee from Virtue, who necessarily meets with some trouble in rejecting and loathing things contrary to herself, as when kindness rejects ill-will ...

In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale, conducted a series of experiments that became famous. Unsuspecting Americans were recruited for what purportedly was an experiment ...