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Podcast: Fascinating Nouns
Episode: Ep. 213: The Milgram Obedience Experiments
Description: The 1950’s and 60’s were a strange time in American culture as it related to human behavior. Behind the scenes, you had the MK Ultra experiments trying to unlock the secrets to mind control. More publicly, you had Dr. Phillip Zimbardo and Stanley Milgram conducting social science experiments designed to show the extremes in human nature, and how we can be manipulated by the subtle social forces at work. All of these existed at a time where rules, ethics, and morals were not present as these scientists searched for a universal truth to human nature. Today’s episode looks at Dr. Sta...