In the 1960's stanley milgram, a social psychologist from the united states, conducted an experiment to investigate what?

Stanley Milgram was a famous American psychologist who in the 1960s conducted experiment's to investigate the idea of "obedience" in humans. He set up a series of trials whereby individuals would administer shocks to another individual to test the individuals degree of obedience in following orders. The experiment was considered unethical due to the stress it caused to the participants even though the shocks were not actually administered and instead an actor faked being shocked.