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.

"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.

The author of a new book on Stanley Milgram’s famous obedience study unearthed some experiments he left out. Do they undermine his gloomy conclusions about human nature?

In 1961, Milgram, a young social psychologist, wanted to study obedience and authority, but he told his subjects he was testing something else, whether punishment helped people learn.

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.

A replication of one of the most widely known obedience studies, the Stanley Milgram experiment, shows that even today, people are still willing to harm others in pursuit of obeying authority. The ...

It’s one of the most well-known psychology experiments in history – the 1961 tests in which social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in a study about memory and learning.

The results of Milgram's experiment made news and contributed a dismaying piece of wisdom to the public at large: It was reported that almost two-thirds of the subjects were capable of delivering ...