Milgram Experiment

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A series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience

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To find her or him, joy is replacing fear, trust is replacing suspicion and courage and initiative are replacing passive obedience to authority.

Humanizing the engineering profession

But his thinking was influenced just as much by oddly nostalgic memories of British colonial discipline and a somewhat self-serving take on Confucianism, stressing obedience to authority, while disregarding the equally Confucian right to dissent.

Those praising Lee Kuan Yew ignored the benefits of democracy

The mystified obedience [the complete obedience to authority, VC & BK] .

Russian orthodoxy and human motivation: the categories of 'sin', 'humility', and 'obedience' in the context of human agency and autonomy

The former teaches obedience to authority without question.

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When one considers the chain of events that precipitated this made-in-South Korea disaster, there is ample reason to worry about South Koreans' legendarily reflexive obedience to authority.

Ferry crisis transports South Korea back to 1997

This was later proved after the Second World War by the Milgram Experiment on obedience to authority figures, focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.

Checkout operator reminded me of Auschwitz

Obedience to authority is ordinary, and disobedience is rather more like running a marathon: perhaps it's laudable, but it's certainly not something that comes naturally.

Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

Over the two centuries, the importance of obedience to authority, social relationships and religion in everyday life seems to have waned, as reflected in the decline of "obedience," "authority," "belong" and "pray.

English speakers use more selfish words today than 200 years ago

This edgy and often hard-to-watch thriller about a nasty prank phone call, looks at the awful effect of blind obedience to authority.

Ring of truth for prank call boss

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The Milgrim Paradigm After 35 Years: Some Things We Now Know About Obedience to Authority.

The thread on which doom hangs: free will, disobedience, and eucatastrophe in Tolklen's middle-earth

In Germany, obedience to authority is a virtue, but when H1N1 hysteria gripped the world last September, Germany's soldiers said "Nein danke