Due to the relative modernity of psychology and its everyday applicability, the field’s experiments which are now deemed controversial and unethical, of which all scientific fields have their own, have a heightened presence in our society’s consciousness. Two of these experiments, the Milgram Obedience Study and Stanford Prison Experiment, are still under constant review by experts and psychologists today for their ethical and moral issues. Despite these concerns, the community is unanimous that the experiments were vital to our current knowledge of social psychology, leading to the question of what constitutes excessive unethicality in comparison to psychological breakthrough. The Milgram Obedience Study, conducted by Dr. Stanley Milgram of Yale University, tested the amount of pain an individual can inflict on someone else--an act meant to go against their morality--when explicitly told to do so by a person in authority. The subject, who believed he was randomly assigned the r...