SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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Question
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most people prefer social acceptance than to be correct
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most people will obey orders, even when it harms others
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morality is more important to people than being obedient
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conformity can lead to obedience
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Detailed explanation-1: -’People will only obey orders to harm others when they identify with those orders and believe the good outweighs the harm. In Milgram’s experiments, participants obeyed when they believed the good of the scientific cause outweighs the harm being done.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the study, an authority figure ordered participants to deliver what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to another person. These results suggested that people are highly influenced by authority, and highly obedient.
Detailed explanation-3: -The experiment found, unexpectedly, that a very high proportion of subjects would fully obey the instructions, with every participant going up to 300 volts, and 65% going up to the full 450 volts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Social psychologist Stanley Milgram researched the effect of authority on obedience. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative–even when acting against their own better judgment and desires.
Detailed explanation-5: -The individual explanation for the behaviour of the participants would be that it was something about them as people that caused them to obey, but a more realistic explanation is that the situation they were in influenced them and caused them to behave in the way that they did.