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Stanley Milgram, a social psychologist at Yale University, conducted a test to see how greatly people obeyed authority figures (Milgram 283). He experimented with many different kinds of people – psychiatrists, college sophomores, middle-class adults, graduate students, and faculty in the behavioral sciences (Milgram 286). Milgram brought about his experiment from his obsession of the Nazi war trials (Milgram 283). He was intrigued by the Nazi’s ability to follow orders and kill many millions of Jews in the process (Milgram 283). The experiment was to reveal the willingness of common people to follow orders while causing extreme pain to another person. The experiment consisted of two people – a “learner” and a “teacher” – in which the learner had to memorize word pairs, and if the learner forgot the word’s pair, they were sho