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

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 ...

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 ...

In 1960, Professor Stanley Milgram of Yale embarked on a study of "obedience to authority" which was later to arouse much moral outrage. Under the pretense that he was studying the effect of ...

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 ...