THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE THE EXPERIMENTER

The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences. Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

In the 1960s Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that forever changed our perceptions of morality and free will. The subjects or teachers were instructed to administer electroshocks to a human learner, with the shocks becoming progressively more powerful and...