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 ...

Conflict experience and resolution underlying obedience to authority: A group of researchers from Regensburg, Göttingen and Würzburg took up this challenge and investigated the conflict experience of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The human mind has always fascinated scientists, but the quest to understand psychological behavior has led researchers down ...

As Philip G. Zimbardo reports, many studies — including his Stanford prison experiment and the classic Milgram obedience experiment — have shown that pressure from authorities, peers, and degrading ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Movie audiences who long for those carefree days of hands-off institutional review boards will be in for a treat when a film about the 1971 Stanford prison experiment hits the big screen. Every ...