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 experiment requires that you continue. It is absolutely essential that you continue. You have no other choice, you must go on.” These were the words spoken to participants of Yale professor ...

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 ...

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 ...

Would you pull the lever? In a famous 1963 psychology experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram, a professor of psychology at Yale, a man posing in a white lab coat asked a group of subjects to ...

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 ...

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World War II and the Nazis’ well-oiled killing machine were recent history, the stuff of living memory, when social psychologist Stanley Milgram embarked on a landmark experiment in “blind obedience ...