Research conducted in July 1961 to expose the external social forces that have powerful effects on human behavior; Educational background; Influence of the work of social psychologist Solomon Asch on the work of Milgram. Milgram attended James Monroe High School, where he quickly earned a reputation as a hard worker and a strong leader and completed high school in just three years. And though he was something of a Renaissance man, making films and writing poetry, Stanley Milgram was no Sigmund Freud: He did not attempt an all-encompassing theory of behavior; no school of thought … Although most subjects were uncomfortable doing it, all 40 subjects obeyed up to 300 volts. Tragically, he died of a heart attack at the age of 51. One of his classmates was future social psychologist Philip Zimbardo. In 1963, Stanley Milgram published a paper in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, in which he described what has become one of the most well-known studies in psychology.1 For those who may not be familiar with the study, I'll briefly explain the procedure. In July, 1961, Stanley Milgram began conducting his first experiment into obedience. During the years 1960-1963 Stanley Milgram carried out some experiments on obedience while working in the Department of Psychology at Yale University. Stanley Milgram was born on August 15, 1933, in the Bronx, New York, the second of three children of Samuel and Adele Milgram, who had both emigrated from Eastern Europe around the time of World War I.Samuel was a baker and cake decorator, and Adele assisted him in the bakery, in addition to being a homemaker. The Milgram experiment was carried out many times whereby Milgram (1965) varied the basic procedure (changed the IV). The participants in the most famous variation of the Milgram experiment were 40 men recruited using newspaper ads. The findings were sensational – between 61 and 66% of all participants, regardless of the time or place or study were prepared to inflict fatal shocks to another participant when they were told to (I have never found this that unusual – for… The visible discomfort of the victim appeared to unnerve the subject, a behavior that Milgram … Milgram dismayed the world when he revealed how little it took to turn everyday people into torturers – but we were misled Milgram was raised in a Bronx working-class home of first-generation Jewish-American parents from Eastern Europe. Stanley Milgram. In the pilot study for Stanley Milgram’s famous Obedience experiments, the subject could dimly perceive the victim “learner” receiving his measured voltage of electric shock through silvered glass.