Experimenter, with Peter Sarsgaard in the title role of Stanley Milgram, isn’t perfect -- and we’ll consider some of the problems shortly. But it is an ambitious and thoughtful film that incorporates ...
The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this replication study, is yes. Social psychologists from SWPS University of Social ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...
If you become fixated on Peter Sarsgaard’s obviously fake beard in “Experimenter,” that’s all right. This is a movie that wants you to notice the artifice: it occasionally includes patently false ...
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 ...
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 ...
Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Nov., 2007), pp. 315-333 (19 pages) This article examines how business students route themselves through the process of cognitive moral development (CMD) to ...
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 ...
Bob McDonough of Clinton has only three memories of his father, who died when McDonough was almost 3 years old: his father placing him on the windowsill to watch him shave, and once letting him sit on ...