This is an opinion column. When Tommy Tuberville became a U.S. Senator, he inadvertently revealed in an interview that he ...

Watching this cast, it increasingly feels like a warped Milgram experiment -- not one about obedience to authority, exactly, but about how easily people abandon their moral judgment when they're told ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Listen 8:21 In the early 1960s, ...

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 ...

Who should be spared pain, hurt or disappointment, and who should be harmed? This internal dilemma accompanied the participants of the Milgram experiment, say experts from SWPS University. They have ...

Social psychologist Stanley Milgram achieved a precocious fame in the early 1960s with his controversial "obedience experiments": subjects posing as "teachers" willingly gave what they believed were ...