Milgram developed an intimidating shock generator, with shock levels starting at 15 volts and increasing in 15-volt increments all the way up to 450 volts.

There’s no other study quite like it.” Changes in ethical standards, spurred in part by the Milgram experiment, would make it impossible to precisely repeat what Milgram did today.

In reality, both the authority figure and the learner were in on the real intent of the experiment, and the imposing-looking shock generator machine was a fake.

Because 79 percent of Milgram’s participants who went past this point continued to the end of the shock generator’s range, “reasonable estimates could be made about what the present ...

Stanley Milgram's experiment was a controversial test of human psychology that shed light on the limitations of free will and obedience to authority.

While Milgram was specifically motivated by a desire to understand the Nazis, his findings may just as easily explain our complacency about the injustices of the global economy. The participants in ...

Fifty years after Stanley Milgram conducted his series of stunning experiments, psychologists are revisiting his findings on the nature of obedience ...

In addition, a clinical psychologist interviewed volunteers to eliminate anyone who might be upset by the study procedure. Like Milgram’s study, Burger’s shock generator machine was a fake.

Milgram developed an intimidating “shock generator”, with shock levels starting at 30 volts and increasing in 15-volt increments all the way up to 450 volts.