Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of 50 stories this year that will highlight Greater New Haven. “Persons Needed for a Study of Memory,” read the half-page ad in the New Haven Register on ...

Most regular people are capable of obeying an authority figure’s commands to the point of killing an innocent other. This is the bottom line of Stanley Milgram’s (1963) famous research into the nature ...

Stanley Milgram would have understood this morally cretinous moment all too well. A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to ...

Next week, I'll lead a reading group that reviews some of the classic studies in social psychology. Because Stanley Milgram's Obedience expierments had the biggest initial impact on my own practice of ...

Do people listen to those in positions of authority, even if what they are telling them is wrong? That question was at the heart of the famous Stanley Milgram psychology experiments and still remains ...

Back in 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram shocked the world with controversial research in which everyday people followed a scientist’s instructions to electrocute someone who they thought was giving ...