Stanley Milgram was born in New York in 1933. A graduate of Queens College and Harvard University, he taught social psychology at Yale and Harvard Universities before becoming a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
He gained worldwide recognition through his obedience experiments conducted at Yale University in the early '60s. Milgram also worked on mental maps of cities, was the originator of the principle which became known as 'six degrees of separation' and studied television's effect on social behaviour. Much of his best work has been collected in his book of essays The Individual in a Social World .
Milgram received several honours and awards, including a Ford Foundation Fellowship, an American Association for the Advancement of Science Socio-Psychological Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He died in 1984 at the age of fifty-one.
By Stanley Milgram from Pinter & Martin:
The Individual in a Social World (paperback)
Obedience to Authority (paperback)
Television and antisocial Behaviour (paperback)
