In My World

The experimenter (E) convinces the subject (S) to give what he believes are painful electric shocks to another subject, who is actually an actor (A). Many subjects continued to give shocks despite pleas of mercy from the actor.

The Milgram experiment was a famous scientific experiment of social psychology. The experiment was first described by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. It was intended to measure the willingness of a participant to obey an authority who instructs the participant to do something that may conflict with the participant’s personal conscience.