Which social psychologist conducted a well-known and controversial experiment that found most people would obey an experimenter's orders to administer a high level of shock to another person?

A) Sigmund Freud
B) William James
C) Walter Mischel
D) Stanley Milgram

Stanley Milgram conducted the controversial obedience experiment in the 1960s where participants were instructed by an authority figure to administer increasingly painful electric shocks to a person in another room. The experiment found that most participants continued to obey even when they believed the shocks were causing harm to the other person.