Stanley Milgram
Social psychologist
Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist best known for his 1960s obedience experiments at Yale University.
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American Born 1933 in The Bronx, United States Died 1984
About Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram (1933 to 1984) was born in Manhattan, New York City. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Queens College in 1954, then a PhD in social psychology at Harvard University. He taught at Yale, Harvard and the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he spent most of his career. His obedience experiment was run at Yale in 1961. It found that a very high share of participants would follow instructions to harm others, though reluctantly. He wrote about it in a 1963 journal article and discussed the findings at greater length in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority. Milgram also introduced the idea of familiar strangers and later developed a technique for creating hybrid social agents called cyranoids. A 2002 survey ranked him 46th among the most-cited psychologists of the 20th century.