Just over half a century ago, Stanley Milgram ran the most renowned studies in the history of psychology. He showed how ordinary people can do extraordinary harm to others when asked to do so. His ...

Experimenter (2015) Film Review from the 2015 New York Film Festival, a movie directed by Michael Almereyda, and starring Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, and John Leguizamo. Experimenter works well as ...

If those words sound a bit ominous, it may be because you have at least a passing familiarity with “the most famous, or infamous, study in the annals of scientific psychology.” We’re talking about ...

In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

Peter Sarsgaard stars as the psychologist Stanley Milgram in the new film The Experimenter. BB Film Productions Why have the landmark psychology experiments of the post-war era proved so enduring?

Michael Almereyda dissects the life and work of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram in a highly stylized biopic worthy of its subject. Milgram made his name in the more permissive, ...

Sarsgaard stars in this smart and unsettling exploration of Stanley Milgram’s questionable experiment testing people’s allegiance to malevolent authority, and potentially exposing the dark heart of ...

In 1961 at Yale, Stanley Milgram completed a series of experiments that would become among the most famous in the history of psychology. Studying obedience to authority, Milgram staged scenes where ...

Lately we've seen flashback fascination with the study of human behaviour, what with Showtime's clinical orgasm series Masters of Sex and this year's feature The Stanford Prison Experiment, a haunting ...

Humans are hard-wired to adjust to changing circumstances. And that’s why terrible changes can occur slowly without much protest. By Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein A new book by Eyal Press examines ...