Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments

"An absorbing account of Stanley Milgram, his subjects, and the continuing quest to understand what it means to be human."―David Baker, director, Archives of the History of American Psychology

When social psychologist Stanley Milgram invited volunteers to take part in an experiment at Yale in the summer of 1961, none of the participants could have foreseen the worldwide sensation that the published results would cause.

Milgram reported that sixty-five percent of the volunteers had repeatedly ...