It’s really significant when someone like Donald Trump does this," one psychologist explained. "It sends a signal that it’s ...

They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and ...

For the people of a nation, an accurate measure of conflict lies not only in military victories but also in maintaining moral ...

Some psychologists spend their lives writing polite articles about human behavior. Others walk straight into the storm and ...

Hannah Arendt’s insight into the psychology of obedience finds deep resonance—and some challenge—in the work of social psychologists who have explored how ordinary people become complicit in harm. The ...

You walk into an experiment you signed up for, which was advertised as a study of how people learn. After picking out of a hat, you are assigned the role of “teacher,” and the man next to you “student ...

Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do ...

Source: Photo by Isabella Fischer on Unsplash In 1961, a young psychologist named Stanley Milgram set out to understand what he viewed as one of the most pressing questions of his time: How had the ...

The Stanley Milgram experiment, conducted in the early 1960s, remains one of psychology’s most famous and controversial studies. It examined humans’ willingness to obey authority, even when such ...