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Stanley Milgram
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Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, sociologist, and university teacher. Born in The Bronx in 1933, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree and was educated at Harvard University, Queens College, and Brooklyn College. He served as a faculty member at both Harvard University and Yale University. Milgram was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
His professional work focused on social and experimental psychology. Notable works include the Milgram experiment and the small-world experiment. Other publications listed include "Obedience to authority," "Television and antisocial behavior," and "Behavioral study of obedience." Milgram died of a myocardial infarction in Manhattan on December 20, 1984. He was survived by four children.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- August 15, 1933
- Died
- December 20, 1984
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Obedience to authority
- Television and antisocial behavior
- Television and Anti-social Behaviour
- Behavioral study of obedience
- Das Milgram-Experiment
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 36
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A SIMPLE METHOD FOR THE ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION OF TOTAL LIPIDES FROM ANIMAL TISSUES
· 1957 · cited 53,674x
- Social Network Analysis
· 1994 · cited 16,449x
- The Effect of a Market Orientation on Business Profitability
· 1990 · cited 16,074x
- Applied Logistic Regression
· 2000 · cited 13,235x
- Nonlinear total variation based noise removal algorithms
· 1992 · cited 12,612x
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Quotes
- “If you think it is easy to violate social constraints, get onto a bus and sing out loud. Full-throated song now, no humming. Many people will say it's easy to carry out this act, but not one in a hundred will be able to do it. The point is not to think about singing, but to try to do it. Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.”
- “I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.”
- “The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”
- “When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The mutual support provided by men for each other is the strongest bulwark we have against the excesses of authority. (Not that the group is always on the right side of the issue. Lynch mobs and groups of predatory hoodlums remind us that groups may be vicious in the influence they exert.)”
- “Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.”
- “The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1933-08-15 ) August 15, 1933, The Bronx , New York City, U.S.
- Died
- December 20, 1984 (1984-12-20) (aged 51), Manhattan , New York City, U.S.
- Education
- Queens College ( BA ), Harvard University ( PhD )
- Known for
- Milgram experiment , Small-world experiment , Familiar stranger
- Title
- Professor
- Spouse
- Alexandra Menkin ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1961 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Stanley
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- psychologist
- Employer
- Yale University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Milgram experiment
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Field of work
- experimental psychology
- Image
- Stanley Milgram 1954.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1933-08-14
- date of death
- 1984-12-20
- name in native language
- Stanley Milgram
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Stanley Milgram
- P8168
- Klaus Schmidt
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Encyclopedic overview
Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist who conducted controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.
Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing the experiment. After earning a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University, he taught at Yale, Harvard, and then for most of his career as a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, until his death in 1984.
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