Facts about Stanley Milgram

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   Milgram's 1967 study on obedience in different settings found that compliance dropped to 48 percent when the experiment moved from Yale's prestigious campus to a nondescript office building in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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   During the 1960s, Milgram's experiments on conformity using line-length judgment tasks revealed that approximately 35 percent of participants conformed to obviously incorrect group answers.

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   After the obedience experiments sparked controversy, Milgram created a lost-letter technique in 1969 that measured attitudes by distributing stamped letters addressed to fake organizations and tracking return rates.

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   Milgram's 1963 small world experiment demonstrated that American participants could connect to a target stranger through an average of 5.5 intermediaries, establishing the six degrees of separation concept.

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   Milgram's 1974 book Obedience to Authority documented his experiments and became influential in psychology, ethics, and institutional review board regulations for human subjects research.

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   In 1961, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted experiments where 65 percent of participants administered what they believed were lethal electric shocks to an unknown person.

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