1. The Obedient Stanley Milgram
The Champion Teacher’s Pet

2. Before His Success…
Stanley was born in the Bronx, New York on August 15, 1933 and died of heart failure at the young age of 51 on December 20, 1984.
His Jewish parents immigrated from Eastern Europe before he was born.
He attended Queens College in New York City and studied Political Science then moved on to Harvard for his social relations Ph D.
His perspective was social psychology.

3. He’s Important for Some Reason… Right? Right.
Milgram was best known for his experiment on obedience to authority.
His goal was to determine what measures an authoritative figure would be willing to go to because of what a higher power told them to do.
The “authoritative figure” was told they were giving a shock to a student for incorrect answers; in reality there were no shocks and an actor was put in another room to simulate the pain of a student with each shock.
The results he collected showed that most participants giving the shocks showed resistance and felt bad about giving shocks after many occurred. But, most still applied the shock anyway.

4. Mind-Boggling Facts
Do you think his experiment is a little messed up? I mean, he did trick people into thinking they were giving someone a 450-volt shock.
During his experiment, he compared obedience levels between men and women. His results? They were both equally obedient, women just showed more stress than men.
He was rejected from Harvard when he first applied because he didn’t take any psychology classes when he went to Queens College.