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Psychologist Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) was deeply affected by Nazi atrocities, so when his early 1960s research on Americans revealed an unexpectedly high rate of obedience to authority commanding ...

Some psychological experiments are so profound in what they demonstrate about human nature that they end up assuming an iconic status in popular culture. Three of the most famous experiments to have ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, the late Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted one of psychology's most famous and controversial experiments. He wanted to test how willing the average person would be to obey an ...

Bob McDonough of Clinton has only three memories of his father, who died when McDonough was almost 3 years old: his father placing him on the windowsill to watch him shave, and once letting him sit on ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Nov., 2007), pp. 315-333 (19 pages) This article examines how business students route themselves through the process of cognitive moral development (CMD) to ...

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 ...

One of the more compelling moments in the new Enron documentary comes from vintage footage of a psychological test by Stanley Milgram. Spliced into the film Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room are ...