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Stanley Milgram
American social psychologist Stanley Milgram with the āshock generatorā used in his famous experiment at Yale University in the 1960s.
In the "lost-letter" experiment, Stanley Milgram investigated community attitudes toward specific institutions, including some that were political in nature. He assessed these outlooks by measuring the rate at which people who found lost letters addressed to those institutions chose to place them in the mail.1