The psychology experiments conducted by stanley milgram in the 1960s and 70s to study obedience to authority among ordinary individuals are, perhaps, the most significant and startling. (“baxter”) these experiments were conducted at a time when the world was still struggling to understand the atrocities committed by the nazis in world war ii.. The dilemma inherent in obedience to authority is ancient, as old as the story of abraham. what the present study does is to give the dilemma contemporary form by treating it as subject matter for experimental inquiry, and with the aim of understanding rather than judging it from a moral standpoint..
