Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments revealed how ordinary people could follow authority to disturbing extremes, with many ...

During the first half of the 20th century, Europeans were subjected to extreme human brutality. Millions of people were killed in the first World War, millions of people were killed by communists ...

In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale, conducted a series of experiments that became famous. Unsuspecting Americans were recruited for what purportedly was an experiment ...

Social psychologist Stanley Milgram achieved a precocious fame in the early 1960s with his controversial "obedience experiments": subjects posing as "teachers" willingly gave what they believed were ...

Michael Almereyda dissects the life and work of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram in a highly stylized biopic worthy of its subject. Milgram made his name in the more permissive, ...

A psychological thriller taking place at a liberal-arts university in Indiana, ‘Obedience’ is the first novel by Louisville, Ky., writer Will Lavender. The studies were popularly called the “obedience ...

Humans are hard-wired to adjust to changing circumstances. And that’s why terrible changes can occur slowly without much protest. By Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein A new book by Eyal Press examines ...