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 subject ...

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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 ...

The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this replication study, is yes. Social psychologists from SWPS University of Social ...

In the early 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial study in which participants were led to believe they were administering... Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the new film Experimenter, Peter Sarsgaard stars as social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who comes up with an experiment to try and determine why human beings are so willing to go against their own ...

Do people listen to those in positions of authority, even if what they are telling them is wrong? That question was at the heart of the famous Stanley Milgram psychology experiments and still remains ...