Born to Jewish parents and deeply affected by the horrors of World War II, Milgram designed an experiment at Yale ... The capacity for obedience to malevolent authority lies not in some distant ...

This internal dilemma accompanied the participants of the Milgram experiment, say experts from SWPS University. They have revisited the causes of obedience in that famous study and showed that the ...

6. The Milgram Experiment (1963) Stanley Milgram's study tested obedience to authority. Participants were told to administer increasingly severe shocks to a person (who was actually an actor ...

A play that dramatizes Stanley Milgram’s infamous social psychology experiments from the 1960s captures the personal side of human research. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten ...

Milgram (1975) defines obedience as when an individual complies with a higher authority. In a classic shock experiment, he found that subjects were willing to shock a confederate to dangerous levels ...

That question was at the heart of the famous Stanley Milgram psychology experiments and still remains today. From the events at Abu Ghraib to Nazi Germany, people have always struggled to understand ...