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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 was born and raised in the Bronx, a borough of New York City, where he grew up as the second of three children in a working-class Jewish family.1