The Milgram Experiment In 1963, the professor of the Yale University, the psychologist, Stanley Milgram, decided to conduct an experiment. He wanted to get to know how the Germans, actually against their will, and only because of the orders, could kill millions of people in the concentration camps during the Second World War. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the willingness of people to obey an authoritative person despite their conscience. There were three participants in the experiment: the “teacher” and two actors – the “learner” and the “experimenter”. The “teacher” believed that he was assisting the scientific experiment. He had to assign the electric shock to the “learner” in case he couldn’t remember the pairs of words.