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 ...

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 ...

Who should be spared pain, hurt or disappointment, and who should be harmed? This internal dilemma accompanied the participants of the Milgram experiment, say experts from SWPS University. They have ...

Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Nov., 2007), pp. 315-333 (19 pages) This article examines how business students route themselves through the process of cognitive moral development (CMD) to ...

The Milgram obedience studies are among the most famous in psychology. They’re featured in most introductory psychology classes and are basically required material for any intro to social psychology ...

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 ...

Bob McDonough of Clinton has only three memories of his father, who died when McDonough was almost 3 years old: his father placing him on the windowsill to watch him shave, and once letting him sit on ...

The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this replication study, is yes. Social psychologists from SWPS University of Social ...

Hannah Arendt’s insight into the psychology of obedience finds deep resonance—and some challenge—in the work of social psychologists who have explored how ordinary people become complicit in harm. The ...

It was decades after WWII, and while the world was rebuilding itself, psychologists were busy climbing over each other in an attempt to understand how people could commit horrific acts of evil. Was it ...