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 ...

Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of 50 stories this year that will highlight Greater New Haven. “Persons Needed for a Study of Memory,” read the half-page ad in the New Haven Register on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most regular people are capable of obeying an authority figure’s commands to the point of killing an innocent other. This is the bottom line of Stanley Milgram’s (1963) famous research into the nature ...

World War II and the Nazis’ well-oiled killing machine were recent history, the stuff of living memory, when social psychologist Stanley Milgram embarked on a landmark experiment in “blind obedience ...

“It’s not surprising that in these studies people conformed, because…they’re being pulled in two directions, it’s authority, they might get in trouble or they want to be what’s called socially ...

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