Stanley Milgram (1933-1984) was an American social psychologist at Yale, later CUNY, whose obedience-to-authority experiments in the early 1960s became one of the most cited and most controversial studies in psychology. He was reportedly motivated partly by the Holocaust and the Eichmann trial. Beyond obedience research, he originated the small-world experiment underlying six degrees of separation and the cyranoid method for studying social perception.
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BirthplaceThe Bronx, New York City, U.S. 1 Death PlaceManhattan, New York City, U.S. 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionConducted the obedience-to-authority experiments demonstrating that ordinary people would inflict apparent harm on a stranger under an experimenter's instruction. 1 Notable WorkObedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974) 1 Connections
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His obedience experiments, beginning in 1961, are widely cited as demonstrating the power of perceived authority.
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Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
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