Renting Your Mind to Science
Yale has a long history of manipulating people’s minds for science.
As I sat in a darkened room, having my thoughts electronically siphoned from my head, I kept coming back to some of that history, and wondering what I had gotten myself into.
Perhaps one of the most famous examples of questionable Yale psychology is the Milgram experiment. In 1961, in the basement of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Stanley Milgram tested resistance to authority by commanding subjects to administer electric shocks to a fellow subject (actually an actor). As the voltage got dangerously high, the...
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