In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The ...

Anne Milgram seems to be stumped. Sitting in an armchair in her sprawling Trenton office with sweeping views of the Delaware River, New Jersey's attorney general looks up at the ceiling, then down at ...

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 ...

The playfully dead-serious drama Experimenter depicts the life of Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard), the Yale social scientist who, in 1961, directed his subjects (“teachers”) to deliver shocks of ...

Each of us is programmed to obey authority, even if that authority commands us to do evil. That was the controversial finding of a series of psychological experiments done in the 1960s, now known ...

In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram set out to see whether ordinary people would administer painful shocks to a stranger if told to do so by someone in a white lab coat. He found that most people (65 ...

If those words sound a bit ominous, it may be because you have at least a passing familiarity with “the most famous, or infamous, study in the annals of scientific psychology.” We’re talking about ...

The following is a transcript of an interview with DEA administrator Anne Milgram on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that aired on Aug. 18, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: Fentanyl and other so-called ...

That’s the message from the Drug Enforcement Administration this morning, which is announcing a rare public safety alert — the first since 2015 — about the alarming amount of counterfeit pills ...