In one of this thinker's experiments, his graduate students found it difficult to ask fellow subway riders for their seats, even though most obliged. 
In one of this thinker's experiments, his graduate students found it difficult to ask fellow subway riders for their seats, even though most obliged. In another, he found that people were less willing to mail lost letters if they were addressed to odious organizations. Mr. Jacobs was a prolific friend of a stockbroker in Sharon, Massachusetts, who passed letters on to him from Omaha in this man's Small World experiment, which gave rise to the idea of "six degrees of separation". For 10 points, name this psychologist who showed that subjects were willing to give electrical shocks up to 450 volts to actors who got questions wrong in his namesake experiment on obedience.
In one of this thinker's experiments, his graduate students found it difficult to ask fellow subway riders for their seats, even though most obliged.
Stanley Milgram