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Fake degrees of separation. (Society).(Brief Article)
Judith Kleinfeld, "The Small World Problem," in Society (January/February 2002), 35 Berrue Circle, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854
In a 1967 article in Psychology Today, psychologist Stanley Milgram announced he had conducted research showing that, on average, two random people could be connected with each other by a chain of five people. Milgram's research was the basis for the now-popular notion that just "six degrees of separation" differentiate a person from a relationship with any other person.
But after studying Milgram's unpublished papers, psychologist Judith Kleinfeld of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks reports that Milgram's research is probably "the academic equivalent of an urban myth."
Milgram conducted his study by soliciting 60 people in Kansas to see if they could mail a document to ...
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Stanley Milgram 1933-1984 American experimental social psychologist known for his innovative experimental techniques. Stanley Milgram carried out influential and controversial experiments that demonstrated that blind obedience to authority could...
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