Yale Experiment Proved Anyone Can Become a Torturer

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]Did you know that 2/3 of ordinary people will torture a stranger if someone in a lab coat tells them to? In 1961, psychologist Stanley Milgram placed volunteers in a room at Yale University.

[00:00:10]He told them to deliver electric shocks to another person every time they answered wrong. The shock started small, 15 volts, then 30, then 450. The victim screamed, begged them to stop, then went silent. But 65% kept going, all the way to the final switch, the switch labeled danger severe shock. The terrifying truth the victims were actors, but the volunteers didn't know that. They thought they were killing someone, and they did it anyway because authority told them to.