Here’s what we found

09 May 2016

Stephen Gibson reviews 'Experimenter', a new film on the life of Stanley Milgram, directed by Michael Almereyda.

• Ethics and morality
• History and philosophy

18 September 2011

Richard Overy, Professor of History at the University of Exeter, in conversation with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam.

• History and philosophy
• Social and behavioural

16 February 2011

Not about obedience after all?

• Social and behavioural

25 February 2015

A new study takes a different stance by looking at the different acts of resistance shown by Milgram’s participants, regardless of whether they ultimately completed the experiment.

• Ethics and morality
• Social and behavioural

02 April 2010

Stanley Milgram’s 1960s obedience to authority experiments are probably the most famous in psychology, and their findings still appall and intrigue to this day.

• Social and behavioural

13 October 2015

The usual, disturbing interpretation is that Milgram showed how readily most people will harm others if they are told to do so by authority.

• Social and behavioural

01 November 2021

Priya Ahmed watches the Netflix sensation, 'Squid Game'.

• Social and behavioural

15 May 2018

Ella Rhodes reports from a Stephen Reicher keynote at the Society's Annual Conference in Nottingham.

• Professional Practice
• Psychological testing

12 December 2017

The most prominent contemporary theory is that the studies don’t demonstrate blind obedience at all, but rather “engaged followership” – people’s willingness to do bad things when they see them as morally good because they serve a grander cause, in this case, science.

• Social and behavioural

05 May 2017

In one version of the study, 26 out of 40 participants continued to the highest shock level – two steps beyond the button labelled “Danger: severe shock”.

• Ethics and morality
• Methods and statistics
• Social and behavioural

25 April 2016

New findings help explain why many people can be coerced so easily writes Mo Costandi.

• Brain

19 September 2011

Film scholar Kathryn Millard looks at Stanley Milgram as filmmaker.

• History and philosophy