If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. Listen 8:21 In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale, conducted a ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — You’re probably not as morally courageous as you think you are. Decades of psychology research have shown that most people will hurt others when an authority figure demands it. Yet a ...

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 ...

The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this replication study, is yes. Social psychologists from SWPS University of Social ...

Who should be spared pain, hurt or disappointment, and who should be harmed? This internal dilemma accompanied the participants of the Milgram experiment, say experts from SWPS University. They have ...

Source: Photo by Isabella Fischer on Unsplash In 1961, a young psychologist named Stanley Milgram set out to understand what he viewed as one of the most pressing questions of his time: How had the ...

A replication of one of the most widely known obedience studies, the Stanley Milgram experiment, shows that even today, people are still willing to harm others in pursuit of obeying authority. The ...