Source: Photo by Isabella Fischer on Unsplash In 1961, a young psychologist named Stanley Milgram set out to understand what he viewed as one of the most pressing questions of his time: How had the ...

Stanley Milgram, a Jewish psychologist who spent his entire life trying to understand the Holocaust, found this widespread belief disturbingly naïve and sought to prove it wrong. He created ...

Stanley Milgram's experiment was a controversial test of human psychology that shed light on the limitations of free will and obedience to authority. Milgram's obedience experiments forced a ...

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 ...

America has long been celebrated as the land of the free — a place where agency, independence and self-determination are ...

A famous experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s claimed that it took on average only six steps for a message to pass between two strangers in America. Since then the idea ...

Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to ...

Source: Photo by Isabella Fischer on Unsplash In 1961, a young psychologist named Stanley Milgram set out to understand what he viewed as one of the most pressing questions of his time ...

Poison, shocks, and state-sanctioned euthanasia - the dark side of science in the 20th century. WhatCulture is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit ...