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 Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still ...

Stanley Milgram was raised in a working-class Jewish ... In fact, more recent examination shows that only in one variation of the experiment did 65% of subjects deliver the ultimate shock.

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 ...