People are different. Even people you think are the same. True, plenty of people will—and unfortunately, do—do horrible things, especially when pressed. And who hasn’t at one time or another invoked Stanley Milgram’s famed study of obedience, where...

And if so, did your experience as an audience member make you think (as it did me) of the social experiments of Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo (though without the sadism)? And — bonus question — is anyone actually working on a social-science...

Here are a couple of the most interesting: Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment 1961 looking at human obedience to authority figures. The goal of his experiment was to find out how the German population in world war two could have gone along with...

Long before Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram demonstrated the concept of six degrees of separation, Dickens was showing a similar level of uncanny connectedness, which had been made possible for the first time by transportation advancements, Grossman...

And while there are "the two percent who like it "-- those whose sociopathy precludes human empathy -- war cannot be blamed on them alone. Rather, as the notorious psychological experiments by Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo have shown, cultural...

Fifty years ago, Prof Stanley Milgram of Yale found out the startling, disturbing answers as test subjects "just following orders" knowingly inflicted pain on others. Now actor and director Eli Roth sets out to recreate the infamous Milgram experiment...