Stanley Milgram Experiment on Social Influence - Looking up into the Sky. This was later elaborated on Von Cialdini in his book “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion”
The Stanford prison experiment was ostensibly a psychological study of human responses to captivity and its behavioral effects on both authorities and inmates in prison. It was conducted in 1971 Von a team of researchers led Von Philip Zimbardo
The experiment was designed Von the Yale universität social psychologist, Stanley Milgram, to demonstrate the willingness of subjects to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that were ethically amoral.