Friday, 30 January 2015

Rethinking One of Psychology's Most Infamous Experiments

Rethinking One of Psychology's Most Infamous Experiments


In 1961, Yale University psychology professor Stanley Milgram placed an advertisement in the New Haven Register. “We will pay you $4 for one hour of your time,” it read, asking for “500 New Haven men to help us complete a scientific study of memory and learning.” Only part of that was true. Over the next two years, hundreds of people showed up at Milgram’s lab for a learning and memory study that quickly turned into something else entirely.

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