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The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an author...
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Although Milgram's findings are disturbing, more recent research has suggested that obedience to authority over conscience is not inevitable. Indeed, the research of Steven Sherman, also a psychologist, suggests that education can strengthen the power of conscience over authority.
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A modern classic with a new foreword by Stanley Milgram's former teacher and friend, author Jerome S. Bruner, Obedience to Authority emerges, even on the thirtieth anniversary of its publication, as a timely book for this age of war and terrorism.
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While the influence of duty, discipline, and loyalty were long recognized as shaping factors of behavior, only recently was the supreme position of this social force (obedience to authority) fully appreciated. Putting it far at the head of the line where it belongs has been a show stopper.
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Steve Booth-Butterfield ... West Virginia University ... Reverend Jim Jones...
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Obedience occurs when a person alters his/her behavior in response to a command from a person in authority ... Without obedience to authority society could not function ... Initial acts of obedience bind the agent to the authority figure...
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COM 102; Writing and Research; Home Page >> Writing Assignments >> Obedience to Authority Synthesis Essay ... Given that communities, cultures and societies require a certain amount of obedience to authority in order to exist, where can we draw the line between blind, dangerous obedience and proper, acceptable obedience?
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"Many wondered after the horrors of WWII, and not for the first time, how people could be motivated to commit acts of such brutality towards each other."Stanley Milgram's now famous experiments were designed to test obedience to authority (Milgram, 1963). What Milgram wanted to know was how far humans will go when...
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A directory of wonderful things. ... Their "obedience to authority" would certainly be of interest to controversial social psychologist Stanley Milgram who conducted similar experiments in the 1960s. From the Louisville Courier-Journal:
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