During the first half of the 20th century, Europeans were subjected to extreme human brutality. Millions of people were killed in the first World War, millions of people were killed by communists ...

In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago Stanley Milgram published his book Obedience to Authority, which described what have arguably become the most famous experiments in psychology. As the book detailed, an experimenter ...