“Milgram set up an experiment where he coerced people to do the wrong thing,” Russell said. But Milgram also tinkered with his experiment to make it more likely for people to disobey.

Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted these experiments during the 1960s. They explored the effects of authority on obedience. In the experiments, an authority figure ordered ...

“The experiment requires that you continue” Secretly watching this scene from behind a two-way glass mirror, was a 28-year-old social psychologist and Yale professor named Stanley Milgram.

Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment Comes Home Obedience to malevolent authority lies not in the other but in the human heart. Posted February 18, 2025 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D.

Some 20 years later, in 1994, McDonough bought his first VCR and was able to get a copy of the video with the help of a librarian from Yale, who knew Milgram's wife. Milgram had by then died.

These were the words spoken to participants of Yale professor Stanley Milgram’s social psychology experiment testing obedience to authority figures. Milgram’s experiment, conducted at Yale in the ...

Election 2016 has developed into a repeat of Milgram’s experiment. We have a chance, at least within the ranks of the GOP, to see Milgram’s findings play out in life.

The Republican Milgram Experiment GOP leaders are administering dangerous shocks to the heart of U.S. democracy, and they can't stop themselves. Popperfoto/Getty Images ...

"Part of that context is that Milgram was a 27-year-old untenured professor who understood that in order to make his mark he had to 'discover' something counter-intuitive, something surprising.