Adolf Eichmann’s trial for Nazi war crimes captivated the world in 1961. Coolly, and without regret, Eichmann acknowledged the horrors he had committed, defending them as the acts of an obedient ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of 50 stories this year that will highlight Greater New Haven. “Persons Needed for a Study of Memory,” read the half-page ad in the New Haven Register on ...

In 1961, while Adolf Eichmann stood trial for Nazi war crimes, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram began what would become one of the most important—and disturbing—psychological experiments ...

Most regular people are capable of obeying an authority figure’s commands to the point of killing an innocent other. This is the bottom line of Stanley Milgram’s (1963) famous research into the nature ...

“Experimenter” is a dramatic feature about the life and work of Stanley Milgram, whose extensive Yale study is probably the 20th century’s best known psychological experiment. You know, the one with ...