Milgram’s electroshock experiment: An experiment that exposed the dark side of human obedience to authority |
Stanley Milgram’s experiments at Yale University in 1961-62 tested obedience, with participants believing they were giving painful electric shocks to others under authority. In the early 1960s, a seemingly simple question arose in a Yale University laboratory: How far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm others? Psychologist Stanley … Read more