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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 ...

Reassessing one of the most famous psychological experiments in history, a recent analysis of audio recordings reveals that ...

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 ...

New research into Milgram's original recordings has rewritten the explanation for one of psychology's most chilling findings.

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 ...

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 ...

Watch the unsettling trailer for The Milgram Experiment, an upcoming psychological thriller inspired by a disturbing real-life experiment. Handcrafted unsettling ethical dilemmas that will make you ...

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 ...