Contesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show.

Understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classic studies from the 1960s and 1970s: Milgram's research on obedience to authority and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. Supporting popular notions of the banality of evil, this research has been taken to show that people...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1bda4014c83f40e7ab36b862f882126b2021-11-18T05:37:22ZContesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show.1544-91731545-788510.1371/journal.pbio.1001426https://doaj.org/article/1bda4014c83f40e7ab36b862f882126b2012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23185132/pdf/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1544-9173https://doaj.org/toc/1545-7885Understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classic studies from the 1960s and 1970s: Milgram's research on obedience to authority and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. Supporting popular notions of the banality of evil, this research has been taken to show that people conform passively and unthinkingly to both the instructions and the roles that authorities provide, however malevolent these may be. Recently, though, this consensus has been challenged by empirical work informed by social identity theorizing. This suggests that individuals' willingness to follow authorities is conditional on identification with the authority in question and an associated belief that the authority is right.S Alexander HaslamStephen D ReicherPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENPLoS Biology, Vol 10, Iss 11, p e1001426 (2012)
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S Alexander Haslam
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Contesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show.
description Understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classic studies from the 1960s and 1970s: Milgram's research on obedience to authority and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. Supporting popular notions of the banality of evil, this research has been taken to show that people conform passively and unthinkingly to both the instructions and the roles that authorities provide, however malevolent these may be. Recently, though, this consensus has been challenged by empirical work informed by social identity theorizing. This suggests that individuals' willingness to follow authorities is conditional on identification with the authority in question and an associated belief that the authority is right.
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title_short Contesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show.
title_full Contesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show.
title_fullStr Contesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show.
title_full_unstemmed Contesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show.
title_sort contesting the "nature" of conformity: what milgram and zimbardo's studies really show.
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