Stanley Milgram

(1933-1984)
A social psychologist who
worked at both Harvard
and Yale University. While
at Harvard, he conducted
the small-world experiment
(the source of the six
degrees of separation
concept), and while at Yale,
he conducted the Milgram
experiment on obedience to
authority

Stanley Migrams Obedience Study

The study was designed to have

teacher (the actual experimental
group) and learners (who were
fictional characters played by the
experimental team).
Teachers were to give learners
electric shocks of increasing degrees
for incorrect or non-answers.

Milgram Experiment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVlI_4GZQ

% of Participants reaching each level

of shock with 2 Authorities in the
room.

Replication of the Milgram

experiment around the world.

% of Participants reaching each level of

shock with dissenting peers in the
room.

% of Participants reaching each level of

shock with dissenting authority in the
room.