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 ...

Call them the shocks heard around the world. In 1961, the psychologist Stanley Milgram, still in his 20s, devised an experiment in which volunteers called “teachers” would administer painful electric ...

One of the most famous psychological experiments was the Milgram Obedience Experiment. Conducted in the early 60's, Miligram told volunteers that he was experimenting on whether or not subjects would ...

. His experiments on obedience to authority are more likely to stimulate discussion than any other example of empirical social science research. "The Man Who Shocked the World" provides a biographical ...

Biographical movies about a period of someone’s life always attract attention, granted there’s enough controversy in the story. Experimenter is a film that shows us how difficult it is to escape from ...

In the 1960s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram, conducted a series of controversial experiments to understand why ordinary Germans obeyed Nazi demands. The ‘Obedience Experiments’, as they came to ...

Infamous for supposedly deceiving people, Stanley Milgram proved in his obedience experiments how people willingly follow orders. despite the fact that following them seems to directly inflict serious ...

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 ...