Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.
33 Facts About Stanley Milgram
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Stanley Milgram gained notoriety for his obedience experiment conducted in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University in 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.
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Stanley Milgram first described his research in a 1963 article in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
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Later in his career, Stanley Milgram developed a technique for creating interactive hybrid social agents, which has since been used to explore aspects of social- and self-perception.
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Stanley Milgram is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of social psychology.
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Stanley Milgram was born in 1933 in New York City to Jewish parents.
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Stanley Milgram's parents were Adele and Samuel Milgram, who had emigrated to the United States from Romania and Hungary respectively during World War I He was the second of three children.
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Stanley Milgram married his wife, Alexandra, in a ceremony at the Brotherhood Synagogue in Greenwich Village in Manhattan on December 10,1961, and they had two children, Michele and Marc.
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At the time of his death, Stanley Milgram lived in New Rochelle, New York.
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Stanley Milgram attended public elementary school and James Monroe High School in the Bronx, and excelled academically and was a great leader among his peers.
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In 1954, Stanley Milgram received his bachelor's degree in political science from Queens College in New York, which he attended tuition-free.
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Stanley Milgram studied at Brooklyn College, where he received A-grades in "Psychology of Personality" and "An Eclectic Approach to Social Psychology".
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Stanley Milgram applied to a PhD program in social psychology at Harvard University, and was initially rejected due to an insufficient background in psychology.
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Stanley Milgram was eventually accepted to Harvard in 1954 after first enrolling as a student in Harvard's Office of Special Students.
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In 1961, Stanley Milgram received a PhD in social psychology from Harvard.
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Stanley Milgram became an assistant professor at Yale in the fall of 1960.
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Stanley Milgram served as an assistant professor in the Department of Social Relations at Harvard from 1963 to 1966 on a three-year contract.
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Stanley Milgram had a number of significant influences, including psychologists Solomon Asch and Gordon Allport.
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Stanley Milgram died on December 20,1984, aged 51, of a heart attack in New York City.
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Stanley Milgram left behind a widow, Alexandra "Sasha" Milgram, a daughter, Michele Sara, and a son, Marc Daniel.
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In 1963, Stanley Milgram submitted the results of his obedience experiments in the article "Behavioral Study of Obedience".
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Ten years later, in 1974, Stanley Milgram published Obedience to Authority.
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Stanley Milgram produced a film depicting his experiments, which are considered classics of social psychology.
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Stanley Milgram helped justify a science some dismiss as unimportant, contributed to the understanding of humanity, and, even if by way of attacks against him, contributed to the consideration of the treatment of research participants.
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Stanley Milgram monitored the progress of each chain via returned "tracer" postcards, which allowed him to track the progression of each letter.
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Stanley Milgram did not follow up on many of the sent packages, and as a result, scientists are unconvinced that there are merely "six degrees" of separation.
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Stanley Milgram developed a technique, called the "lost letter" experiment, for measuring how helpful people are to strangers who are not present, and their attitudes toward various groups.
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Stanley Milgram found most of the letters addressed to individuals and favorable organizations were mailed, while most of those addressed to stigmatized organizations were not.
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In 1977 Stanley Milgram began piloting an experimental procedure that aimed to operationalize the mind-body fusion fantasy explored in the Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Stanley Milgram trained speech shadowers to replicate in real-time spontaneous prose supplied by a remote "source" by-way-of discreet radio transmission during face-to-face dialogue with naive "interactants".
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Stanley Milgram was a consultant for the film, though the accuracy of the film has been contested by Stanley Milgram himself.
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Stanley Milgram 18 was reproduced to test the participants in a 2008 television special The Heist.
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In 2015, an experimental biopic about Stanley Milgram called Experimenter was released, directed by Michael Almereyda.