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Milgram’s obedience to authority experiments were conducted more than 50 years ago and can undoubtedly be considered one of the most important but also most controversial studies ever conducted. The Milgram experiments consisted in measuring the willingness of ordinary people to obey authority figures even at the expense of their conscientious moral beliefs. The experiments claimed that a very high proportion of ordinary people are willing to even put other people’s lives in danger by blindly following orders!

In the last few years (2011-2015), a book on Milgram was published, a film made and 4 international peer-reviewed journals dedicated a special issue to Milgram’s experiments. All this triggered the opening of the Yale archives which gave access to Milgram’s personal notes. This talk aims at analysing to what extent this new information sheds new light on the Milgram experiments; to assess what we can actually learn from Milgram’s experiments and to discuss whether his findings can help us understand mass atrocities such as the Holocaust.

Speaker: Prof. Dr Alette Smeulers

Date: January 31, 17:30 - 19:00

Location: City center. The exact location will be sent after registration.

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