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Stanley Milgram was born in New York City in 1933. His high school interests centered around science, as shown by his earning the school's gold medal in biology. After high school he enrolled at Queens College of the City University of New York, where he majored in political science.
Later he decided to major in social psychology at Harvard University, where he studied with Solomon Asch and earned a doctorate in 1960. Milgram taught at Yale and Harvard Universities before finally settling at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1967. Milgram conducted a large number of studies in social psychology. Perhaps the best known is his controversial obedience study described in his 1974 book, Obedience to Authority. Milgram's research was often creative and original. For example, he once dropped letters from a helicopter to measure prejudice, asked people to hand a package to someone they knew to study communication channels, and took photographs of people to study social interactions. Milgram received numerous awards for his creative contributions to psychology. He produced an award-winning film on his work on urban life and overload. Stanley Milgram died in December 1984 at the age of 51. |
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