Stanley Milgram

American social psychologist of the obedience experiments and the small-world problem, both cultural landmarks.

Specifications & Metrics

lifespan

1933-1984

nationality

American

tradition

Social psychology

Core Principles & Analysis

• The obedience series at Yale found most men would follow instructions to apparently harm a stranger.
• His small-world letter-chain experiments from 1967 seeded six-degrees-of-separation network science.
• While finishing his Harvard PhD, he worked as Solomon Asch's assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Stanley Milgram