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Date of Birth
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15-August-1933
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Place of Birth
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New York City
(New York, United States of America, Area code 917)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Profession
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Scientist, Psychologist, Professor, Author
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Stanley Milgram was an American social psychologist.
He conducted various studies and published articles during his lifetime, with the most notable being his controversial study on obedience to authority, conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale. Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, specifically the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing this experiment.
His small-world experiment while at Harvard would lead researchers to analyze the degree of connectedness, most notably the six degrees of separation concept.
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