How to Be a Hero: Insight From the Milgram Experiment
Category: SCIENCE
This unilateral focus on the dark side has had the unintended effect of blinding us to one of the most obvious and inspiring features of the experiment: it also showed that hundreds of ordinary people -- though the minority of Milgram's participants -- did in fact have what it takes to stand up for what is right.
By Matthew Hollander, Contributordoctoral candidate in Sociology, musician, 2015-02-27