Yale University, 1961 People believe they are delivering severe electric shocks to a kind stranger chained to a chair in another room in Stanley Milgram's influential psychological experiment. The majority of subjects continue with the experiment, inflicting what they believe to be a near-fatal electric shock, despite his pleadings for mercy. Milgram's investigation on people's tendency to obey with authority strikes a chord in popular culture and the scientific world as the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann airs in American living rooms. In some circles, he is revered, but he is also suspected of being a deceitful, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha remains by him through it all.
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Yale University, 1961 People believe they are delivering severe electric shocks to a kind stranger chained to a chair in another room in Stanley Milgram's influential psychological experiment. The majority of subjects continue with the experiment, inflicting what they believe to be a near-fatal electric shock, despite his pleadings for mercy. Milgram's investigation on people's tendency to obey with authority strikes a chord in popular culture and the scientific world as the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann airs in American living rooms. In some circles, he is revered, but he is also suspected of being a deceitful, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha remains by him through it all.
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