Reassessing one of the most famous psychological experiments in history, a recent analysis of audio recordings reveals that subjects who seemingly obeyed orders to administer severe electric shocks ...

During the first half of the 20th century, Europeans were subjected to extreme human brutality. Millions of people were killed in the first World War, millions of people were killed by communists ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conflict experience and resolution underlying obedience to authority: A group of researchers from Regensburg, Göttingen and Würzburg took up this challenge and investigated the conflict experience of ...

Caspar, a professor of neuroscience at Ghent University in Belgium, debuts with a rigorous study of the “process through which obedience influences cognition and behavior.” Drawing on robust ...