Alec performs an experiment on his class in The Irrational season 2, episode 14. It’s all about the case, though. Caution: This post contains SPOILERS from The Irrational season 2, episode 14 Going ...

Would you pull the lever? In a famous 1963 psychology experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram, a professor of psychology at Yale, a man posing in a white lab coat asked a group of subjects to ...

The episode reads like a transcript out of the most infamous psychological experiment of all time—the Milgram experiment. If you've ever taken any introductory psychology course, you've heard of it.

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 ...

More than 50 years ago, American social psychologist Stanley Milgram found that, when prodded by someone in charge, just about every one of us would do something that most would find deeply disturbing ...

Bob McDonough of Clinton has only three memories of his father, who died when McDonough was almost 3 years old: his father placing him on the windowsill to watch him shave, and once letting him sit on ...