Obedience of Authority

The Milgram Experiment

Introduction

The Miligram experiment was a famous scientific paper in the field of social psychology. This experiment was conducted by Stanley Miligram, who is a psychologist at Yale University. He talked about this issue of obedience of authority for the first time in an article published in 1963 in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology which was titled as Behavioral Study of Obedience. He again discussed this issue in great details in 1974 in his book Obedience to authority. The objective of the test was to measure the willingness of participants to obey the orders of an ...