PARK CITY, Utah — Though they took place more than 50 years ago, the obedience experiments of renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram have not lost their power to provoke and disturb. But when ...

The playfully dead-serious drama Experimenter depicts the life of Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard), the Yale social scientist who, in 1961, directed his subjects (“teachers”) to deliver shocks of ...

If the name Stanley Milgram doesn't sound familiar, the experiment for which he's known likely does. In the early '60s, he performed an "obedience experiment" at Yale wherein a subject would be tasked ...

Michael Almereyda's movie, Experimenter, revisits a controversial 1961 social science experiment, which explored whether volunteer subjects would press a button and shock other volunteers if so ...

Peter Sarsgaard as Stanley Milgram in "The Experimenter." (Jason Robinette) The 20 th century was not kind to the idea of free will. It started with Sigmund Freud's theory that we're all basically ...

Stanley Milgram is not a household name. But even those who have never heard of the social psychologist (1933-1984) may be aware of his landmark Yale experiment on obedience to authority. In a series ...

Peter Sarsgaard has played more than his fair share of real people during his 20-year film career. In fact, he’s playing three in films currently in theatrical release — “Black Mass,” “Pawn Sacrifice” ...

“Experimenter” is a dramatic feature about the life and work of Stanley Milgram, whose extensive Yale study is probably the 20th century’s best-known psychological experiment. You know, the one with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The controversial social psychologist Stanley Milgram gets a biopic as polymorphous as one of his own research studies in ...

What would it take for an average person to repeatedly harm a stranger with increasingly powerful — and potentially fatal — jolts of electricity? For 65 percent of you, only a polite but firm request ...

The indie actor gets grilled, in rapid-fire succession, on bossy directors, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Hillary Clinton and other topics. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer A version of this story ...