Psychology's Most Infamous Experiments

“Ordinary people, under the direction of an authority figure, would obey just about any order they were given, even to torture” (The Atlantic, Rethinking One of Psychology's Most Infamous Experiments). Stanley Milgram ran an experiment at yale that tested one's willingness to follow orders from an . This experiment is more commonly known as the Milgram Experiment. Stanley Milgram randomly selected people who responded to the advertisement in the newspaper. Stanley had subject one in a room with him, and had another subject two sit in a room, that was not seen by subject one. Stanley Milgram ordered subject one to administer electric shocks to subject two, that would cause pain but not kill subject two. In reality subject two was not feeling