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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

There is an elephant in the room — a hallway actually — in Michael Almereyda’s mostly playful if occasionally pretentious “Experimenter,” a post-modernist biopic about the controversial psychological ...

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 ...

Peter Sarsgaard plays social scientist Stanley Milgram in Experimenter. Michael Almereyda's movie, Experimenter, revisits a controversial 1961 social science experiment, which explored whether ...