The playfully dead-serious drama Experimenter depicts the life of Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard), the Yale social scientist who, in 1961, directed his subjects (“teachers”) to deliver shocks of ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Though they took place more than 50 years ago, the obedience experiments of renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram have not lost their power to provoke and disturb. But when ...

Michael Almereyda's movie, Experimenter, revisits a controversial 1961 social science experiment, which explored whether volunteer subjects would press a button and shock other volunteers if so ...

If the name Stanley Milgram doesn't sound familiar, the experiment for which he's known likely does. In the early '60s, he performed an "obedience experiment" at Yale wherein a subject would be tasked ...

World War II and the Nazis’ well-oiled killing machine were recent history, the stuff of living memory, when social psychologist Stanley Milgram embarked on a landmark experiment in “blind obedience ...

An experimenter's mindset requires being relatively unbothered when experiments don't work. If that's not your natural ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The controversial social psychologist Stanley Milgram gets a biopic as polymorphous as one of his own research studies in ...

“Experimenter” is a dramatic feature about the life and work of Stanley Milgram, whose extensive Yale study is probably the 20th century’s best-known psychological experiment. You know, the one with ...

The Milgram experiments showed that humans will do bad things under the right circumstances. NPR's Rachel Martin interviews the star of the film "Experimenter" that explores Stanley Milgram's life.

What would it take for an average person to repeatedly harm a stranger with increasingly powerful — and potentially fatal — jolts of electricity? For 65 percent of you, only a polite but firm request ...