PT Barnum meets Stanley Milgram

·July 13, 2016 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram, Writing of psychology

What have professional showmen like PT Barnum and social psychologists like Stanley Milgram got in common? Plenty, according to Michael Pettit,  science historian and author … Read more »

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Milgram’s secret experiments

·July 28, 2013 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Psychology of psychology experiments

Tom Bartlett over at the Chronicle of Higher Education has blogged about my discovery of obedience experiments that Stanley Milgram kept secret. In these experiments, … Read more »

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Short history of shock

·June 3, 2013 ·Milgram's obedience experiments, Psychology of psychology experiments, Social psychology, Stanley Milgram

Shock machines were being used at educational institutions to improve student performance long before Stanley Milgram devised his obedience experiments at Yale in 1961. The … Read more »

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