If those words sound a bit ominous, it may be because you have at least a passing familiarity with “the most famous, or infamous, study in the annals of scientific psychology.” We’re talking about ...

Adolf Eichmann’s trial for Nazi war crimes captivated the world in 1961. Coolly, and without regret, Eichmann acknowledged the horrors he had committed, defending them as the acts of an obedient ...

The episode reads like a transcript out of the most infamous psychological experiment of all time—the Milgram experiment. If you've ever taken any introductory psychology course, you've heard of it.

Stanley Milgram's experiment was a controversial test of human psychology that shed light on the limitations of free will and obedience to authority. Milgram's obedience experiments forced a subject ...

In a replication of a famous psychology experiment, researchers found that people are just as likely to follow harmful orders ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Ever since social psychologist Stanley ...

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 ...

More than 50 years ago, American social psychologist Stanley Milgram found that, when prodded by someone in charge, just about every one of us would do something that most would find deeply disturbing ...

The playfully dead-serious drama Experimenter depicts the life of Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard), the Yale social scientist who, in 1961, directed his subjects (“teachers”) to deliver shocks of ...