They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and ...

I conducted a partial replication of Stanley Milgram's famous obedience studies that allowed for useful comparisons with the original investigations while protecting the well-being of participants. We ...

Source: Photo by Isabella Fischer on Unsplash In 1961, a young psychologist named Stanley Milgram set out to understand what he viewed as one of the most pressing questions of his time: How had the ...

The Stanley Milgram experiment, conducted in the early 1960s, remains one of psychology’s most famous and controversial studies. It examined humans’ willingness to obey authority, even when such ...

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 have ...

The Milgram experiment is a classic and shocking study that showed that many people would continue administering electric shocks they believed were hurting someone if an authority figure encouraged ...