In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

In the early 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial study in which participants were led to believe they were administering... Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Ever since social psychologist Stanley ...

What do you get when you combine Netflix’s “Black Mirror” and social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s controversial electric-shock experiments on free will versus obedience? No one can say for sure, but ...

Participant in Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments. Yale University Library Would you electrocute an innocent stranger if you were told to do so by someone in a position of authority? This is ...