Stanley Milgram
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Stanley Milgram (1933-08-15 – 1984-12-20) was a social psychologist at Yale University, Harvard University and the City University of New York. While at Harvard, he conducted the small-world experiment, which was the source of the concept of six degrees of separation. While at Yale, he conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority. He also introduced the concept of the familiar stranger.
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- The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
- Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (1974), ch. 1: The Dilemma of Obedience