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In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram set out to see whether ordinary people would administer painful shocks to a stranger if told to do so by someone in a white lab coat. He found that most people (65 ...

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 ...

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If those words sound a bit ominous, it may be because you have at least a passing familiarity with “the most famous, or infamous, study in the annals of scientific psychology.” We’re talking about ...

WEARING a neat suit and tie, Adolf Eichmann brought the horror of Nazi concentration camps into American living rooms, making a new generation aware of the second world war’s atrocities. Eichmann was ...

In the 1960s, social psychologist Stanley Milgram, conducted a series of controversial experiments to understand why ordinary Germans obeyed Nazi demands. The ‘Obedience Experiments’, as they came to ...

In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale, conducted a series of experiments that became famous. Unsuspecting Americans were recruited for what purportedly was an experiment ...

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 ...