Most regular people are capable of obeying an authority figure’s commands to the point of killing an innocent other. This is the bottom line of Stanley Milgram’s (1963) famous research into the nature ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stanley Milgram would have understood this morally cretinous moment all too well. A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to ...

Baffled by why Germans remained so obedient during the butchery of the Holocaust, Milgram conducted experiments to show how quickly ordinary people could inflict painful shocks on innocent people when ...

Apologies in advance, because I’m about to geek out. The Irrational Season 2 Episode 14 centering around the Milgram Experiment is the coolest thing ever. I’ve been fascinated with this social ...

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 ...