> the Milgram experiments Although the electric shock is the better known one, Milgram has suggested I believe three of the most impressive experiments in soci

> the Milgram experiments Although the electric shock is the better known one, Milgram has suggested I believe three of the most impressive experiments in social psychology that I can think off: - measuring the diameter the small world using postcards (for a fashion magazine; that experiment could only be replicated by Facebook) - he inspired the Stanford prison by Zimbardo. But doing “bad experiments but good plays” was something he was aware, hence his and the rest of the field insistence to do more, to know better. Reproducing it, be it with flawed game-show observation, getting back to experiments notes with a different perspective (Milgram was understandably concerned if a subject would, under thread of a handful of dollars, still proceed; an experimenter who wants to find excuses has a different point of view) is part of the same effort to understand not just how it happened, but how to avoid it, too. > Milgram became more interested in the control than the test. That is a staple of cognitive psychology, and that instinct has led to measure spectacular impact from increasingly negligible factors: the one I like to quote (it is not very well known, made at my alma mater in Nanterre near Paris) has an Ultimatum game played after subjects are told to say whether they prefer a Klimt painting to a Delaunay, against players that agree or not.