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 ...

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Source: Photo by Doug Kenrick / Blog Author / Used with Permission The best-known finding from the field of social psychology may well be Stanley Milgram’s study of obedience to authority, but ...

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 ...