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Stanley Milgram

1933 - 1984

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Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 – December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist who conducted 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. Milgram gained notoriety for his obedience experiment conducted in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall at Yale University in 1961, three months after the start of the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stanley Milgram is the 60th most popular psychologist (down from 57th in 2019), the 1,204th most popular biography from United States (down from 926th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Psychologist.

Stanley Milgram was a psychologist who conducted the Milgram experiment in 1961. The experiment was designed to test how much people would obey an authority figure, even if they were told to do something that conflicted with their morals.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Stanley Milgram ranks 60 out of 235. Before him are Martin Seligman, Antonio Damasio, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Raymond Cattell, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Pierre Janet. After him are Alice Miller, Fritz Perls, Leon Festinger, William Stern, Raymond Moody, and Philip Zimbardo.

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Among people born in 1933, Stanley Milgram ranks 58. Before him are Charles K. Kao, Antonio Negri, John Barry, Jerzy Grotowski, Jayne Mansfield, and Ali Shariati. After him are Sylva Koscina, Richard Rogers, C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Jerzy Kosiński, Abolhassan Banisadr, and Than Shwe. Among people deceased in 1984, Stanley Milgram ranks 31. Before him are Janaki Ammal, Karl Wolff, Anna Anderson, Sam Peckinpah, Lionel Robbins, and Jiro Miyake. After him are Oleg Antonov, Philippe Ariès, Vincent J. McMahon, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Motoo Tatsuhara, and Viktor Shklovsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stanley Milgram ranks 1,204 out of 20,380. Before him are Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918), Terrence Malick (1943), Harold Lasswell (1902), Jennifer Connelly (1970), James Gandolfini (1961), and Jonathan Demme (1944). After him are Michael Crichton (1942), Bill Gates Sr. (1925), Lionel Richie (1949), Shawn Michaels (1965), Ted Kennedy (1932), and Robert Solow (1924).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Stanley Milgram ranks 20. Before him are Albert Ellis (1913), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), Alfred Kinsey (1894), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Martin Seligman (1942), and Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913). After him are Leon Festinger (1919), Raymond Moody (1944), Philip Zimbardo (1933), Mary Ainsworth (1913), George Armitage Miller (1920), and Timothy Leary (1920).

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