'The Human Behavior Experiments': What Can Be Done in the Name of Obedience? People wonder how ordinary American soldiers, men and women, could have mistreated prisoners so barbarically at Abu Ghraib. "The Human Behavior Experiments," a documentary on both Court TV and the Sundance Channel tonight, suggests that actually it's surprising such things don't happen more often.Dr. Stanley Milgram's infamous "electroshock" experiments at Yale in the 1960's revealed just how banal the banality of evil is. "Human Behavior" shows black-and-white clips from those studies, and also reports on other, even more disturbing, experiments.
