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Just added a summary of this study on holah.co.uk
It’s not the best summary ever written as it is difficult to do justice to such an influential 40 page experimental case study. I would like to delete a few bits to make it shorter and easier to read but would also like to add [...]

There has been an almost widespread consensus amongst social psychologists that tyranny triumphs either because ordinary people blindly follow orders or else because they mindlessly conform to powerful roles. Much of this consensus has been influenced by the work of Milgram and Zimbardo
However, more recently, British psychologists S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher have [...]

This video clip is not taken from the original 1950s experiments but is in fact a ‘made for telly’ version, from I think (guessing at the fashion of the actors). the late 1970s. The acting isn’t bad though.
Solomon Asch was interested to find out about conformity and in particular, the circumstances in which people would [...]

There’s a nice little two part piece on The Situationist which has Zimbardo commenting on Milgram’s work. Well worth a read.
“Milgram left us with a vital legacy of brilliant ideas that began with those centered on obedience to authority and extended into many new realms—urban psychology, the small-world problem, six degrees of separation, and the [...]

Did you struggle teaching the BBC Prison Study?
I did and was annoyed at myself because I knew it was a good addition to the core studies and I believed that my enthusiasm for this new study, and in particular Reicher and Haslam’s critique of the flawed Stanford Prison Experiment, would reach my students. [...]

With the recent announcement of Jerry Berger’s (2009) soon-to-be-published (but available to download here) Replicating Milgram: Would People Still Obey I will be writing a series of articles considering the theories, methods and repercussions of both Berger’s 2009 research and the original that started this journey over 50-years-ago.

Part I: Ethics
Part II: Was it really a [...]

The addition of the new Reicher & Haslam study to the course has introduced to many a long-argued debate surrounding Zimbardo’s original Stanford Prison Experiment; calling into question his conclusions and situational explanation for the behaviour that was seen.  
Reicher & Haslam argue against this in their 2006 research from the BBC’s The Experiment (and they have [...]

Hot off the press: The new Official BBC prison website has been launched by Reicher & Haslam.
www.BBCPrisonStudy.org
Having had a link through this new site it offers a massive amount of resources, insight and information about the study that is new to the 2008 specification.
The site has a great resources section with ideas in depth, related publications [...]

I’ve just read an account of a participant from the original Milgram experiment. The account in the January 2004 issue of Jewish Currents recounts Joseph Dimow’s experience at the hands of Milgram and the experimenter.
When is it proper to refuse to obey authority figures, even if they have been democratically chosen for their positions?  In [...]

One of the most talked about studies, both here on PsychBLOG and throughout popular psychology, is Milgram’s study of obedience.  Here he asked a volunteer sample of men from the New Haven area to administer increasingly powerful electric shocks to another person (a confederate).  How many people, both teachers and students alike asked themselves the [...]