Stanley Milgram Quotes


It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.


Citations

Milgram, Stanley. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View. Harper & Row, 1974, p. 11.

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Stanley Milgram
Stanley Milgram
  • Born: August 15, 1933
  • Died: December 20, 1984
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Psychologist

Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiments on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale.