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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram shocked the world with controversial research in which everyday people followed a scientist’s instructions to electrocute someone who they thought was giving ...

In 1961, while Adolf Eichmann stood trial for Nazi war crimes, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram began what would become one of the most important—and disturbing—psychological experiments ...

If you were asked to name the most famous psychology investigation ever to be conducted, the chances are good that you’d come up with the “obedience to authority” experiment as your answer. From this ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In an infamous series of experiments first conducted in the 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social ...