The Milgram experiment was a seminal series of social psychology exterments conducted at Yale University by psychologist Stanley Milgram. He measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience. Milgram first described his research in 1963 in an article published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, and later discussed his findings in greater depth in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
Category: Psychology
Stanford Prison Experiment 1971
The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the human response to imposed social roles on behavior. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford University. Undergraduate volunteers played the roles of guards and prisoners living in a mock prison that was constructed in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
The Power of the Situation
Social psychology experiments look at people interact with other people. How leaders influence others and how groups effect others.
Inattentional Blindness
Inattentional blindness is an observed phenomenon of the inability to perceive features in a visual scene when the observer is not attending to them. That is to say that humans have a limited capacity for attention which thus limits the amount of information processed at any particular time. Any otherwise salient feature within the visual field will not be observed if not processed by attention.
Asch Conformity Experiment
Solomon Asch asked students to participate in a “vision test.” In reality, all but one of the participants were confederates of the experimenter, and the study was really about how the remaining student would react to the confederates’ behavior.