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When did Stanley Milgram begin the obedience experiments at Yale University?
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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.
Stanley Milgram began recruiting participants for his obedience experiments in 1961 while serving as an assistant professor at Yale University. While he conducted early pilot studies prior to this, the first official experiments were carried out in 1961.12