High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933 December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist most notable for his controversial study known as the Milgram Experiment. The study was conducted in the 1960s during Milgram's professorship at Yale.Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust to carry out an experiment that would prove the relationship between obedience and authority. Shortly after the obedience experiment, Milgram conducted the small-world... Mehr