The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of notable social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.

Six years later ( at the height of the Vietnam War ), one of the participants in the experiment sent correspondence to Milgram, explaining why he was glad to have participated despite the stress:

Milgram argued that the ethical criticism provoked by his experiments was because his findings were disturbing and revealed unwelcome truths about human nature.

A partial replication of the Milgram experiment was conducted by British psychological illusionist Derren Brown and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK in The Heist ( 2006 ).

Another partial replication of the Milgram experiment was conducted by Jerry M. Burger in 2006 and broadcast on the Primetime series Basic Instincts.

The episode was hosted by Eli Roth who got similar results to the original Milgram experiment.

Stanley Milgram ( August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984 ) was an American social psychologist.

Stanley Milgram was born in 1933 to a Jewish family in New York City, the child of a Romanian-born mother, Adele ( née Israel ), and a Hungarian-born father, Samuel Milgram.

Milgram excelled academically and was a great leader among his peers.

Most likely because of his controversial Milgram Experiment, Milgram was denied tenure at Harvard after becoming an assistant professor there.

Milgram influenced numerous psychologists including Alan C. Elms, who was Milgram's first graduate assistant in the study of obedience.

Milgram died on December 20, 1984 of a heart attack in New York, the city in which he was born.

Ten years later, in 1974, Milgram published Obedience to Authority and was awarded the annual social psychology award by the AAAS ( mostly for his work over the social aspects of obedience ).

Milgram became very notorious for this tactic, and his experiment was soon classed as highly unethical as it caused stress to the participants in the study.

Milgram himself was a consultant for the film, though his personal life did not resemble that of the Shatner character.

When asked about the film, Milgram told one of his graduate students, Sharon Presley, that he was not happy with the film and told her that he did not want his name to be used in the credits.

The concept was first introduced by Paul Milgram.

Schreiber was born Isaac Liev Schreiber in San Francisco, California, the son of Heather ( née Milgram ) and Tell Schreiber, a stage actor and director.

By the time Liev was four, he was living with her on the fourth floor of a dilapidated walkup at First Avenue and First Street in New York City ( his half brothers from her first marriage were with their father in a duplex on Central Park West ), and he was the object of a fierce custody battle, which bankrupted his maternal grandfather, Alex Milgram.

Milgram also polled forty psychiatrists from a medical school and they believed that by the tenth shock, when the victim demands to be free, most subjects would stop the experiment.

Milgram later investigated the effect of the experiment's locale on obedience levels by holding an experiment in an unregistered, backstreet office in a bustling city, as opposed to at Yale, a respectable university.

There is a little-known coda to the Milgram Experiment, reported by Philip Zimbardo: none of the participants who refused to administer the final shocks insisted that the experiment itself be terminated, nor left the room to check the health of the victim without requesting permission to leave, as per Milgram's notes and recollections, when Zimbardo asked him about that point.

The Milgram Shock Experiment raised questions about the research ethics of scientific experimentation because of the extreme emotional stress and inflicted insight suffered by the participants.

In the 2010 French documentary, Le Jeu de la Mort ( The Game of Death ), researchers recreated the Milgram experiment with an added critique of reality television by presenting the scenario as a game show pilot.

* Obedience is a black-and-white film of the experiment, shot by Milgram himself.

* The Milgram Experiment is a 2009 film by the Brothers Gibbs which chronicles the story of Stanley Milgram's experiments.

*" Authority ", an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, features Merrit Rook, a suspect played by Robin Williams, who employs the strip search prank call scam, identifying himself as " Detective Milgram ".

Likewise, Merritt Rook ( portrayed by Robin Williams ) poses as a " Detective Milgram " to convince a restaurant owner to molest an employee and drive the doctor that let his wife and infant child die to suicide.

* ' Steve Blinkhorn's review of ' The man who shocked the world: the life and legacy of Stanley Milgram ' by Thomas Blass.

The Milgram experiment is the name of a 1961 experiment conducted by American psychologist Stanley Milgram.

In an experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in 1963 the researchers told participants that they would be participating in a scientific study of memory and learning.

Baumrind ( 1964 ), criticizing the use of deception in the Milgram ( 1963 ) obedience experiment, argues that deception experiments inappropriately take advantage of the implicit trust and obedience given by the subject when the subject volunteers to participate ( p. 421 ).

The controversial Milgram experiment into obedience by Stanley Milgram showed that many people lack the psychological resources to openly resist authority, even when they are directed to act callously and inhumanely against an innocent victim.

Milgram devised his psychological study to answer the question: " Was it that Eichmann and his accomplices in the Holocaust had mutual intent, in at least with regard to the goals of the Holocaust?

Humans have been shown to be surprisingly obedient in the presence of perceived legitimate authority figures, as shown by the Milgram experiment in the 1960s, which was carried-out by Stanley Milgram to find how the Nazis managed to get ordinary people to take part in the mass murders of the Holocaust.

* The second is the agentic state theory, wherein, per Milgram, " the essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view themselves as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes, and they therefore no longer see themselves as responsible for their actions.

Burger noted that, " current standards for the ethical treatment of participants clearly place Milgram ’ s studies out of bounds.

Digging into the psychology of the Lee Harvey Oswald type character, the attorney finds out the " decoy shooter " participated in the Milgram experiment.

In this experiment, 26 out of 40 participants administered the full range of shocks up to 450 volts, the highest obedience rate Milgram found in his whole series.

In 1986, musician Peter Gabriel wrote a song called We do what we're told ( Milgram's 37 ), referring to the number of subjects ( out of 40 ) who obeyed the experimenters all the way in Milgram's authority experiment, Milgram 18.

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