<Tr> <Th> Parent (s) </Th> <Td> Samuel and Adele Milgram </Td> </Tr> <P> Stanley Milgram (August 15, 1933--December 20, 1984) was an American social psychologist, best known for his controversial experiment on obedience conducted in the 1960s during his professorship at Yale . Milgram was influenced by the events of the Holocaust, especially the trial of Adolf Eichmann, in developing the experiment . </P> <P> After earning a PhD in social psychology from Harvard University, he taught at Yale, Harvard, and then for most of his career as a professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center, until he died in 1984 . His small - world experiment while at Harvard led researchers to analyze the degree of connectedness, including the six degrees of separation concept . Later in his career, Milgram developed a technique for creating interactive hybrid social agents (cyranoids), which has since been used to explore aspects of social - and self - perception . </P> <P> He is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of social psychology . A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Milgram as the 46th-most - cited psychologist of the 20th century . </P>

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