He did so as part of an experiment by city university of new york social psychologists stanley milgram , leonard bickman and lawrence berkowitz that was designed to find out what effect this action would have on passersby 此举其实是纽约城市大学社会心理学家斯坦利?米尔格兰姆、里奥纳德?别克曼和劳伦斯?伯克维兹所进行的实验的一部分，旨在发现此项行为会对路人产生怎样的影响。
One of the more unlikely offices to have been flooded with mail is that of the city university of new york ( cuny ) , a public college that lacks , among other things , a famous sports team , bucolic campuses and raucous parties ( it doesn ' t even have dorms ) , and , until recently , academic credibility 纽约城市大学，一所公立学院，与其他学校相比，它没有一支声名显赫的运动队，没有田园诗一般的校园，也没有喧嚣嘈杂的派对? ?甚至连宿舍都没有，而且，直到最近也没取得学术上的可信度，可就是这所大学的办公室塞满了学生们寄来的申请函，这简直有些令人难以置信。
