COLUMBUS, Ohio — You’re probably not as morally courageous as you think you are. Decades of psychology research have shown that most people will hurt others when an authority figure demands it. Yet a ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. Listen 8:21 In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale, conducted a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...