Michael Almereyda's movie, Experimenter, revisits a controversial 1961 social science experiment, which explored whether volunteer subjects would press a button and shock other volunteers if so ...

“Experimenter” is a dramatic feature about the life and work of Stanley Milgram, whose extensive Yale study is probably the 20th century’s best-known psychological experiment. You know, the one with ...

Peter Sarsgaard as Stanley Milgram in "The Experimenter." (Jason Robinette) The 20 th century was not kind to the idea of free will. It started with Sigmund Freud's theory that we're all basically ...

The playfully dead-serious drama Experimenter depicts the life of Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard), the Yale social scientist who, in 1961, directed his subjects (“teachers”) to deliver shocks of ...

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In the new film Experimenter, Peter Sarsgaard stars as social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who comes up with an experiment to try and determine why human beings are so willing to go against their own ...

What would it take for an average person to repeatedly harm a stranger with increasingly powerful — and potentially fatal — jolts of electricity? For 65 percent of you, only a polite but firm request ...

World War II and the Nazis’ well-oiled killing machine were recent history, the stuff of living memory, when social psychologist Stanley Milgram embarked on a landmark experiment in “blind obedience ...

The Milgram experiments showed that humans will do bad things under the right circumstances. NPR's Rachel Martin interviews the star of the film "Experimenter" that explores Stanley Milgram's life.

The indie actor gets grilled, in rapid-fire succession, on bossy directors, Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Hillary Clinton and other topics. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer A version of this story ...