E10 L’expérience de Milgram

Intermediate French Podcast with Transcript.


Learn French in Context with these Fascinating Topics.


Very few psychological experiments became as famous and
controversial as Milgram’s.


Stanley Milgram, born in a Jewish family in the Bronx, was deeply
affected by the horrors of the Holocaust. After earning a Ph.D.
in social psychology from Harvard University, he started a series
of experiments to understand how so many Human Beings could
commit such atrocities.


His terrifying results were an electroshock both for the public
opinion and the scientific community. Although his methods were
highly criticized, the Milgram experiment became an object of
fascination and a source of inspiration for many books, movies,
documentaries, etc.


Among those was a French-Swiss version of the experiment realized
in 2010 that you can watch in this documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w_nlgekIzw


This podcast is designed for intermediate French learners who
want to get a better grasp of the language by listening to
interesting topics.


You can find the transcript of this episode here:
www.innerfrench.com/podcasts