Stanley Milgram's experiment was a controversial test of human psychology that shed light on the limitations of free will and obedience to authority.

Read on to learn more about the controversial Milgram shock experiment and its impact on modern psychological research. Milgram's study took place at Yale University in 1961. It was inspired by ...

The report takes audiences through today’s version of the Milgram experiment. Participants are told they are taking part in a learning ... If ‘Ken’ gets a word pair wrong, participants are to punish ...

During the 1960s, a groundbreaking experiment proved that most people might just follow orders even when it meant inflicting pain on others. The Milgram obedience experiments were conducted by ...

A high proportion of the subjects actually worked up to administering an "XXX" shock, even though they heard the "student" screaming. The Milgram experiment was clearly deceptive, and the subjects ...

In fact, more recent examination shows that only in one variation of the experiment did 65% of subjects deliver the ultimate shock. Milgram argued that most people will surrender to a higher ...

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 ...

who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey by using electric shock. We follow Milgram, from meeting his wife Sasha through his ...