How Would People Behave in Milgram’s Experiment Today?
Half of a century ago, Milgram’s experiments cast doubt on Americans’ sense of moral exceptionalism. Has anything changed the “banality of evil”?
Founding Columnist
John Greenwood
John Greenwood is professor in philosophy and psychology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His primary research is in the history and philosophy of social and psychological science. He holds an M.A. from Edinburgh University and a D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford University. He is associate editor of the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour and president-elect of the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association). He has edited two collections and authored five books, including The Disappearance of the Social in American Social Psychology and A Conceptual History of Psychology: Exploring the Tangled Web.
The Long and Winding Road: 125 years of the American Psychological Association
The road to APA’s 125th year was not a straightforward march of like-minded professionals towards a common goal.
Psychologists Go to War
The work of a key group of psychologists initiated the largest program of psychological testing attempted to that date, but also provided powerful impetus for two movements: the call for immigration quotas and the sterilization of the feebleminded.