Milgram’s experiment has become a classic in psychology, demonstrating the dangers of obedience. The research suggests that situational variables have a stronger sway than personality factors in ...

Personality What Would YOU Have Done in Milgram’s Experiment? Enhanced Self-Perceptions and Obedience to Authority Posted September 2, 2015 ...

Landmark Milgram experiments on obedience recreated in Poland, with similarly horrifying conclusion. The research concluded that the world had changed little since the original work, done in the ...

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.

Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking Obedience Study. In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale, conducted a series of experiments that became famous.

Mazzocco and his research team wanted to understand whether people actually learn from one of psychology’s most famous findings. They presented 414 adults with a detailed, first-person account ...

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 ...

What Milgram counted as “obedience” is equally misleading. Recordings of the experiments reveal subjects who repeatedly refused to comply, but reluctantly continued when the researcher insisted. Some ...

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 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 ...