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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zimbardo saw his study as a follow up to 1961's Milgram experiment, in which participants administered what they believed were powerful electric shocks to victims (played by actors) at the ...

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 ...