The real-life experimenter at the heart of the docudrama that goes by that name is Stanley Milgram (1933-1984), a social psychologist who, in an infamous 1961 experiment at Yale, enlisted ...

Michael Almereyda's movie, Experimenter, revisits a controversial 1961 social science experiment, which explored whether volunteer subjects would press a button and shock other volunteers if so ...

NPR's Rachel Martin interviews the star of the film "Experimenter" that explores Stanley Milgram's life. After World War II, there were all kinds of questions asked about how the Holocaust could ...

“Experimenter”: Social psychologist Stanley Milgram’s notorious, eye-opening obedience experiments from 1961 — in which subjects were observed as they administered what they thought were ...

“I wanted the film to be very playful, because that was part of Milgram’s character,” the director says of his sly and thoughtful film “Experimenter,” which was shown in Sundance’s ...

“Experimenter’s” most striking quality ... Originally Published: October 22, 2015 at 6:06 AM MDT ...

Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger ...

Gregg Herken is an emeritus professor of modern American diplomatic history at the University of California, and author of “Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert ...