| Level | File |
| Ref No | PHO/001/04/08/31 |
| Title | Stanley Milgram 'Obedience' Experiment photograph |
| Site | Obedience 1968 Stanley Milgram. |
| Date | 1968 |
| Extent | 1 photograph |
| Physical Description | black and white photograph |
| Description | A black and white still photograph from the film Obedience, showing a participant during Standley Milgram's obedience experiement in front of the shock generator. Starting in 1963. a series of social psychology experiments were conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience. Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a "learner." These fake electric shocks gradually increased to levels that would have been fatal had they been real.
Obedience was a black-and-white film of the experiment, shot by Milgram himself.
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| Format | Photograph |
| Dimensions | 7x5 |
| Material | photograph |
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| Includes letter of permission from Alexandra Milgram (9 February 2012) - image used as a backgound on the Origins History of Psychology project poster on 'Ethics' |
| AccessConditions | Copyright permission for BPS website use only. Permission letter contrains personal data |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Location | 13: BPS History of Psychology Centre London |
| Term | Social psychology |
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| Rules | Description compiled in line with the following: ISAD (G) General International Standard Archival Description MAD3 Third Edition 2000 |
| ArchNote | Compiled by Claire Jackson BPS Archivist History of Psychology Centre. |