In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram set out to see whether ordinary people would administer painful shocks to a stranger if told to do so by someone in a white lab coat. He found that most people (65 ...

What if one of the most famous and influential psychology experiments of the twentieth century was proven invalid? In October 1963, the New York Times reported the findings of an experiment by ...

In the early 1960s, psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a controversial study in which participants were led to believe they were administering... Taking A Closer Look At Milgram's Shocking ...

Social psychologist Stanley Milgram achieved a precocious fame in the early 1960s with his controversial "obedience experiments": subjects posing as "teachers" willingly gave what they believed were ...

Stanley Milgram got a lot of press for his experiment in which participants thought they were shocking people to death. We don’t give him credit for his other experiment – in which participants ...

“Experimenter” is a dramatic feature about the life and work of Stanley Milgram, whose extensive Yale study is probably the 20th century’s best known psychological experiment. You know, the one with ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Why is defiance the anomaly instead of the norm?" Magnolia Picture has debuted the official trailer for Experimenter, directed by Michael Almereyda starring Peter Sarsgaard as social psychologist ...

Mere days after Columbia’s president testified the university was doing “everything it can” against antisemitism, extremist protestors took over the campus, threatening and attacking Jewish students, ...

Donald Trump’s increasingly grotesque behavior is not just the defining aspect of his presidential campaign, it’s an ongoing test of character for the elected Republicans who have endorsed him. The ...