In August 1976, the TV movie The Tenth Level, inspired by Milgram’s obedience research, screened to around 30 million viewers as part of CBS’s Playhouse 90 series. From the opening scene onward, Professor … Read more »
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Milgram’s design for book advertising
It took Stanley Milgram over 10 years to write his book about the Obedience to Authority experiments. The writing went very slowly. But he also … Read more »
Behind the Shock Machine and ‘The Experimenter’
My verdict : This film appears to pull off a near impossible feat – making Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments boring. Partly because the film portrays … Read more »
Job vacancy, Yale, 1961: obedience experimenter
Stanley Milgram drafted this ad for a research assistant in mid July 1961. The ad, like all Milgram’s recruitment materials, is cleverly crafted. It’s an … Read more »
Screentest for Obedience, Milgram’s film
You might think watching Milgram’s film Obedience, that you are watching rare ‘through the keyhole’ footage of a live experiment. In fact the film is … Read more »
Milgram on experimentation and insight
When an investigator keeps his eyes open throughout a scientific study he learns things about himself as well as his subjects and the conclusions do … Read more »
Lights, camera – Obedience!
Alfred Hitchcock seems an unlikely inspiration for an instructional film about a psychological experiment. But Stanley Milgram paid close attention to Hitchcock’s horror movies for … Read more »
Fiction and flaws in social psych textbooks
When a textbook is recommended for a class, you expect that you’ll be able to turn to it for definitive answers, don’t you? Maybe you … Read more »
Milgram’s meditation on the mind
Sometimes I think that my mind is littered with the junk of our times, neon signs, beer cans, flashing hub caps, like an abandoned garbage … Read more »
Milgram’s obedience statistics published
Stanley Milgram kept data sheets like the one pictured here for all 24 variations of his obedience experiments. However, while he conducted the experiments over … Read more »