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Why Was the Milgram Experiment So Controversial?

Verywell Mind
Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted these experiments during the 1960s. They explored the effects of authority on obedience.
3 months ago

Stanley Milgram - Obedience, Psychology, Experiments

Britannica
Stanley Milgram - Obedience, Psychology, Experiments: In 1963 Milgram left Yale to join the faculty of Harvard's social relations department.
5 days ago

New psychology research adds another twist to Stanley Milgram's famous obedience findings

PsyPost
Studies reveal people obey instructions more readily for tasks linked to 'hard' sciences like neuroscience compared to 'soft' sciences like social science.
10 months ago

Without a Doubt

Mishpacha Magazine
Would we — given the same set of circumstances — transgress to a similar, morally bankrupt degree?
6 months ago

Milgram’s Infamous Shock Studies Still Hold Lessons for Confronting Authoritarianism

Scientific American
Stanley Milgram published his book Obedience to Authority, which described what have arguably become the most famous experiments in psychology.
2 months ago

The Experiment That Tested Whether Ordinary People Would Kill Just Because An Authority Figure Told Them To

All That's Interesting
A controversial examination of obedience to authority, the Milgram experiment made subjects believe they were administering high-voltage electric shocks to...
9 months ago

Authority's physical proximity means greater obedience: A new look at results of famous experiment

Medical Xpress
Who should be spared pain, hurt or disappointment, and who should be harmed? This internal dilemma accompanied the participants of the Milgram experiment,...
5 months ago

Obedience induces agentic shifts by increasing the perceived time between own action and results

Nature
The concept of 'agentic shift,' introduced by Stanley Milgram, suggests that obedience reduces the sense of agency. In a recent study simulating the seminal...
4 months ago

Philip Zimbardo, 91, Whose Stanford Prison Experiment Studied Evil, Dies

The New York Times
Philip G. Zimbardo, a towering figure in social psychology who explored how good people turn evil in the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, which devolved...
1 month ago

Sad news: Ig Nobel Prize winner Phil Zimbardo has died

Improbable Research
Phil Zimbardo died on October 14. His obituary is online. One of his lesser professional accomplishments came in 2003 when that year's Ig Nobel Prize in...
1 month ago