Essays Tagged: "Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View (Perennial Classics)"
Obedience to authority
The research of group conformity and obedience to authority in cults is the topic that I am highly interested in writing about. Two aspec ... oup, which are engraved by the leader.The research of cults can easily be related to the concept of obedience to authority expressed in Stanley Milgram's experiment. The leaders of a cult often put th ... order to join, members may have to change their name and can even be assigned a person to marry.The obedience and conformity of cults can also be compared to Erich Fromm's essay. Most of the decisions ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Unethical Psychological Experiments
ic shock conductor. The experiment was conducted in order to measure how ordinary people succumb to obedience, "when people change their behaviour because someone tells them to" (Gleitman, Gross & ... e no other choice but to continue". Milgram justified this through arguing that the study was about obedience and these steps were necessary to ensure genuine reactions to the expectations put forward ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Stanford prison experiment
CUSSIONZimbardo was the student of another psychologist, Stanly Milgram, who studied the nature of "obedience experimentation." He hoped to adapt on his work and expand upon that work. The experiment ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology