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.

The notorious Milgram psychology experiments, carried out in the 1960s, required participants to give electric shocks to people when they were instructed to. The electric shocks were fake, but ...

ELEANOR HALL: The controversial obedience experiments, conducted by Yale University Professor Stanley Milgram more than half a century ago, have influenced our views of human nature well beyond ...

Prior to Milgram’s publishing Obedience to Authority (1974), he was shaken by the My Lai massacre and other U.S. atrocities that were committed by American soldiers in the Vietnam War.

"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?

Milgram, it is to be noted, designed his ‘experiment’ with the compelling events of the Eichmann trial in mind–i.e., that of the mindset of a war criminal (Eichmann).

Although popular understanding focuses on a single experiment, Milgram in fact conducted more than 20, with varying conditions, involving nearly 800 volunteers. Overall, a majority of his subjects ...

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 ...