ABSTRACT

When asked about the course of Stanley Milgram’s studies, students of psychology (or students of other majors with psychology courses) often describe (more or less accurately) Experiment No. 2 or Experiment No. 5. Our experience shows that even psychologists working as scholars at universities are often unaware of the actual scope of the research program as evidenced by the results of the studies carried out in New Haven. In this chapter, we go through all the procedures used in 24 variants of the Milgram experiment, while demonstrating the logic behind the study process applied in the series of experiments.