A Conversation for Milgram's Obedience Research: Studying What Humans Are Capable Of

Ig Nobel (Psychology 2023)

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Baron Grim

Earlier this month, Stanley Milgram was posthumously awarded an Ig Nobel prize in psychology for a study he and others did in 1969 "for experiments on a city street to see how many passersby stop to look upward when they see strangers looking upward". One of his co-researchers, Leonard Bickman, accepted the prize. http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2023

Here is a link to the study: http://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/h0028070


Ig Nobel (Psychology 2023)

Post 2

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - rofl That's wonderful news!

I started college in 1970. Everybody seemed to know about this study - we would conduct our own impromptu versions, like staring in a particular shop window to see if it drew a crowd (it did). smiley - laugh I didn't take psychology and even I'd heard of it.

I have a sneaking suspicion Professor Milgram would have enjoyed the Ignobels, don't you?


Ig Nobel (Psychology 2023)

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SashaQ - happysad

smiley - biggrin

Yes, birdwatching is a good hobby for that phenomenon - many's the time I've looked in the same direction as other people until someone gives in and says, 'What are we looking for?' smiley - rofl


Ig Nobel (Psychology 2023)

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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - snork


Ig Nobel (Psychology 2023)

Post 5

Baron Grim

I once got my sister to look up in the sky when I pointed over the tree tops and said, "Look! A dead bird!"
It works rather too well.

smiley - laugh


Ig Nobel (Psychology 2023)

Post 6

Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

smiley - rofl That was mean.


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