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He was born in New York City.
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Stanley Milgram associated with Solomon Asch while at Princeton and came up with the idea for his shock experiment based off of Asch's theory of conformity.
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He earned his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Harvard University.
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The trial of Adolf Eichmann was one of the prime inspirations for the obedience experiments and one of the main real-world examples of Milgram's theory of obedience.
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Milgram started his series of experiments involving his obedience theory at Yale University.
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Milgram shot this film at Yale as visual evidence of his findings once he had finished his experiments involving the obedience theory.
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Milgram published this article with the results of his obedience experiments. Milgram's ethics were questioned after its release and there was controversy over whether he was justified to conduct these kinds of stressful experiments.
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U.S. soldiers were ordered to attack a village in Vietnam, killing hundreds of unarmed civilians. This was another example of Milgram's theory in action, and he discussed the reasons for the event in his book. (Interestingly, only the platoon leader was convicted, though 26 soldiers were initially charged).
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Stanley Milgram published his results and conclusions about his experiments in greater depth involving his theory of obedience.
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He died of heart failure in his home city of New York.