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09 May 2016
Stephen Gibson reviews 'Experimenter', a new film on the life of Stanley Milgram, directed by Michael Almereyda.
18 September 2011
Richard Overy, Professor of History at the University of Exeter, in conversation with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam.
16 February 2011
Not about obedience after all?
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.
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.
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.
01 November 2021
Priya Ahmed watches the Netflix sensation, 'Squid Game'.
15 May 2018
Ella Rhodes reports from a Stephen Reicher keynote at the Society's Annual Conference in Nottingham.
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.
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”.
25 April 2016
New findings help explain why many people can be coerced so easily writes Mo Costandi.
19 September 2011
Film scholar Kathryn Millard looks at Stanley Milgram as filmmaker.
Series: Psych-Talk Volume: 1 Issue: 66
Date of Publication: 01-06-2010
Author(s): Bhupinder Kuwar
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