During the 1960s, a groundbreaking experiment proved that most people might just follow orders even when it meant inflicting ...

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 ...

Milgram’s experiments started in the 1960s when The Cold War was at its height and fears about communism took many forms. There was public anxiety about mind control, prompted by the capture and ...

The Milgram experiment was clearly deceptive, and the subjects were hardly competent to give their informed consent. Yet, the experiment was conducted. No proposal like this has ever come up ...

Let's say you signed up for a part-time job and were sent to a university research lab, where a famous experiment on obedience was being conducted by U.S. social psychologist Stanley Milgram (1933 ...