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 ...
Psychologist Stanley Milgram (1933–1984) was deeply affected by Nazi atrocities, so when his early 1960s research on Americans revealed an unexpectedly high rate of obedience to authority commanding ...
What if one of the most famous and influential psychology experiments of the twentieth century was proven invalid? In October 1963, the New York Times reported the findings of an experiment by ...
Replicating Milgram: Researcher finds most will administer shocks when prodded by 'authority figure'
WASHINGTON – Nearly 50 years after one of the most controversial behavioral experiments in history, a social psychologist has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they ...
If those words sound a bit ominous, it may be because you have at least a passing familiarity with “the most famous, or infamous, study in the annals of scientific psychology.” We’re talking about ...
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 ...
Nineteen sixty-one was a remarkable year. In the U.S., Freedom Riders were progressing the cause of civil rights and Kennedy was dreaming about the moon. Humans, for the first time, sailed with the ...
An earlier column, “Homo Politicus,” offered an explanation of why Washington does not learn from experience. (Recap: Washington elites rarely operate from observed results. Rather, they mostly ...
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