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 ...

Who should be spared pain, hurt or disappointment, and who should be harmed? This internal dilemma accompanied the participants of the Milgram experiment, say experts from SWPS University. They ...

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.

Milgram never needed to travel to Germany to study authoritarianism. He found its psychological foundations right there in Connecticut, in the beating heart of American democracy.