Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist who conducted controversial experiments on obedience in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.
Background
- Born in
- The Bronx
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityBrooklyn CollegeQueens CollegeJames Monroe High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 AAAS Prize for Behavioral Science Research
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1933
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Birth1984
Died
Death
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