The Milgram Experiment: The History and Legacy of the Controversial Social Psychology Experiment

“Could it be that Eichmann and his million accomplices in the Holocaust were just following orders? Could we call them all accomplices?" - Stanley Milgram

Among psychology experiments, one of the most famous was based on studies into society's willingness to conform to orders. In the wake of World War II and the Nuremberg Trials, where various Nazis defended their actions by insisting they were simply following orders, various psychologists began to study just how far people were willing ...