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Dr. Stanley Milgram’s experiments on obedience to authority, conducted at Yale University in the early 1960’s. He conducted experiments examining the degree to which ordinary people would comply with the orders of an authority when those orders went against conscience.
The experiments showed that people would inflict a painful shock to a person they believed to be a helpless victim if urged to by an experimenter.
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Dr. Milgram also had a great part in the formulation of the theory of Six degrees of separation, that originated form the small world experiment he conducted in 1967.

The experiment « tracked chains of acquaintances in the United States. In the experiment, Milgram sent several packages to 160 random people living in Omaha, Nebraska, asking them to forward the package to a friend or acquaintance whom they thought would bring the package closer to a set final individual, a stockbroker from Boston, Massachusetts.

The letter included this specific condition: “If you do not know the target person on a personal basis, do not try to contact him directly. Instead, mail this folder to a personal acquaintance who is more likely than you to know the target person.” »

He was such a genius.