Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments revealed how ordinary people could follow authority to disturbing extremes, with many ...

During the first half of the 20th century, Europeans were subjected to extreme human brutality. Millions of people were killed in the first World War, millions of people were killed by communists ...

Source: Photo by Isabella Fischer on Unsplash In 1961, a young psychologist named Stanley Milgram set out to understand what he viewed as one of the most pressing questions of his time: How had the ...

Caspar, a professor of neuroscience at Ghent University in Belgium, debuts with a rigorous study of the “process through which obedience influences cognition and behavior.” Drawing on robust ...

When Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, was brought to trial at Jerusalem’s District Court in April 1961, those in the courtroom and the millions watching on TV were in for a ...