Milgram’s electric shock experiment: The test that exposed dark side of human obedience to authority |
Stanley Milgram’s 1961–62 Yale University experiment examined obedience, the place individuals believed they delivered painful electric shocks to others underneath authority. In the early Sixties, a deceptively easy query took form inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an extraordinary individual go if instructed by an authority determine to hurt another person? The […]




