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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Infamous for supposedly deceiving people, Stanley Milgram proved in his obedience experiments how people willingly follow orders. despite the fact that following them seems to directly inflict serious ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

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 ...

World War II and the Nazis’ well-oiled killing machine were recent history, the stuff of living memory, when social psychologist Stanley Milgram embarked on a landmark experiment in “blind obedience ...

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 ...

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 ...