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  2. Small-world experiment - Wikipedia

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    One of Milgram's most famous works is a study of obedience and authority, which is widely known as the Milgram Experiment. [5] Milgram's earlier association with Pool and Kochen was the likely source of his interest in the increasing interconnectedness among human beings. Gurevich's interviews served as a basis for his small world experiments.

  3. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View - Wikipedia

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    In 1963, Milgram published The Behavioral Study of Obedience [1] in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, which included a detailed record of the experiment. The record emphasized the tension the experiment brought to its participants, but also the extreme strength of the subjects' obedience: all participants had given electric shocks ...

  4. Stanley Milgram - Wikipedia

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    Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale. [2] Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing the

  5. Milgram experiment - Wikipedia

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    Before conducting the experiment, Milgram polled fourteen Yale University senior-year psychology majors to predict the behavior of 100 hypothetical teachers. All of the poll respondents believed that only a very small fraction of teachers (the range was from zero to 3 out of 100, with an average of 1.2) would be prepared to inflict the maximum ...

  6. Social experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Milgram experiment's ethical considerations and criticism centered on its psychological impact on participants. It raised concerns about the potential emotional stress inflicted on the individuals involved in the study. [39] This study significantly contributed to understanding obedience to authority and human behavior in social contexts.

  7. Situationism (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    A third well-known study supporting situationism is an obedience study, the Milgram experiment. Stanley Milgram made his obedience study to explain the obedience phenomenon, specifically the holocaust. He wanted to explain how people follow orders, and how people are likely to do unmoral things when ordered to by people of authority.

  8. Deindividuation - Wikipedia

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    Stanley Milgram's study is a classic study of blind obedience, however, many aspects of this study explicitly illustrate characteristics of situations in which deindividuation is likely to occur. Participants were taken into a room and sat in front of a board of fake controls.

  9. Breaching experiment - Wikipedia

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    A line to buy subway tokens in New York City, similar to the ones experimenters deliberately cut into to in order to record reactions in one experiment by Stanley Milgram. Another norm breaching study led by Milgram sought to examine the response of people waiting in line to intruders, again violating first-come, first served. This was done by ...