Stanley Milgram





Stanley Milgram

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born
August 15, 1933 in New York City, New York, The United States

died
December 20, 1984

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influences
Solomon Asch, Gordon Allport, The Nuremberg Trials


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Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was a social psychologist at Yale University, Harvard University and the City University of New York. While at Harvard, he conducted the small-world experiment (the source of the six degrees of separation concept), and while at Yale, he conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority. He also introduced the concept of familiar strangers.

He took a psychology course as an undergraduate at Queens College, New York, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in political science in 1954. He applied to a Ph.D. program in social psychology at Harvard University and was initially rejected due to lack of psychology background. He was accepted in 1954 after taking six courses in psychology,...more


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Obedience to Authority
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“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”
Stanley Milgram

“It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)


Stanley Milgram

“But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.”
Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority