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  2. Small-world experiment - Wikipedia

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    The small-world experiment comprised several experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram and other researchers examining the average path length for social networks of people in the United States. [1] The research was groundbreaking in that it suggested that human society is a small-world -type network characterized by short path-lengths.

  3. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View - Wikipedia

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    The experiments came under heavy criticism at the time, but were ultimately vindicated by the scientific community. 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 ...

  4. Social experiment - Wikipedia

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    Field social experiments had proved to be efficient as they reflect real life due to their natural setting. [6] The social experiments commonly referred to today were conducted decades later, in which an experiment is done in a controlled environment such as a laboratory. An example of this is Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment in 1963. [7]

  5. Milgram experiment - Wikipedia

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    Batch '81 is a 1982 Filipino film that features a scene based on the Milgram experiment. [54] Atrocity is a 2005 film re-enactment of the Milgram Experiment. [55] The Heist, a 2006 TV special by Derren Brown, features a reenactment of the Milgram experiment. Dar Williams wrote the song "Buzzer" about the experiment for her 2008 album Promised ...

  6. Stanley Milgram - Wikipedia

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    Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing the experiment. After earning a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University, he taught at Yale, Harvard, and then for most of his career as a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, until his death in 1984.

  7. Inflicted insight - Wikipedia

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    The Milgram experiment is a well-known example of an experiment with a very high potential for inflicted insight. Through their participation in the experiment, many subjects realized that they were capable of committing acts of extreme violence on other human beings. After this realization, many subjects experienced prolonged symptoms of ...

  8. Familiar stranger - Wikipedia

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    The 1972 paper was based on two independent research projects conducted in 1971, one at City University of New York and the other at a train station. Psychology Today published a second paper on the subject by Milgram, "Frozen world of the familiar stranger: a conversation with Stanley Milgram", in 1974.

  9. Person–situation debate - Wikipedia

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    This claim was especially detrimental to personality psychology and continues to haunt many fields of psychology research today. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The validity of self-report measures and clinical assessment procedures: Most of the studies that Mischel reviewed had taken place in laboratory settings.