obedience

(noun)

A form of social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure.

Related Terms

  • confederate
  • deindividuation
  • authority

Examples of obedience in the following topics:

  • Obedience

    • Following the Second World War—and in particular the Holocaust—psychologists set out to investigate the phenomenon of human obedience.
    • They quickly found that the majority of humans are surprisingly obedient to authority.
    • After running these experiments, Milgram and Zimbardo concluded that the following factors affect obedience:
    • Prestige of the experimenter: Something as simple as wearing a lab coat or not wearing a lab coat can affect levels of obedience; authority figures with more prestige elicit more obedience; both researchers have suggested that the prestige associated with Yale and Stanford respectively may have influenced obedience in their experiments.
    • Explain how the Milgram and Stanford Prison experiments informed our understanding of human obedience
  • Charismatic Authority

    • Charismatic authority is power legitimized by a leader's exceptional personal qualities, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.
    • Charismatic authority is power legitimized on the basis of a leader's exceptional personal qualities, or the demonstration of extraordinary insight and accomplishment, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.
  • Conformity and Obedience

    • In human behavior, obedience is a form of social influence in which a person accepts instructions or orders from an authority figure.
    • Stanley Milgram created a highly controversial and often replicated study of obedience.
    • The other classical study on obedience was conducted at Stanford University during the 1970's.
    • Differentiate among compliance, identification, and internalization; and between obedience and conformity
  • Authority Patterns

    • Parents who practice authoritarian style parenting have a strict set of rules and expectations and require rigid obedience.
    • If rules are not followed, punishment is most often used to ensure obedience.
  • Child Rearing

    • Parents who practice it have a set of rules and expectations, and they require rigid obedience.
    • If rules are not followed, punishment is most often used to ensure obedience.
  • The Milgram Experiment: The Power of Authority

    • However, Milgram's experiments relate to any question of obedience and authority.
    • The Milgram experiment—based on obedience to authority figures—was a series of notable social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s.
    • The second is the agentic state theory, where, according to Milgram, "the essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view themselves as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes, and they therefore no longer see themselves as responsible for their actions..."
  • The Influence of Genes on Behavior

    • For example, some dogs are bred specifically to be obedient, like golden retrievers; others are bred to be protective, like German shepards.
  • Delegation of Authority

    • A leader in a formal, hierarchical organization, who is appointed to a managerial position, has the right to command and enforce obedience by virtue of the authority of his position.
  • The Working Class

    • Research showing that working-class students are taught to value obedience over leadership and creativity can partially account for the difficulties that many working-class individuals face upon entering colleges and universities.
  • Formal Means of Control

    • From a legal perspective, sanctions are penalties or other means of enforcement used to provide incentives for obedience with the law, or rules and regulations.
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