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Discuss the causes of resistance to obedience. Resistance to obedience is affected or influenced by many contributing factors but can be defined as "The act of defying an order from an authority figure despite pressures to obey. The same factors that reduce obedience can be used to explain increased resistance, for example the proximity of the victim." There are numerous ways in which people resist obedience which are determined by changes in circumstances in which they deal with authority. A situational factor has an influence on resistance to obedience e.g. proximity to victim. When the learner is placed in the same room the obedience levels drop to 40%. In Milgram's study, he moved the learner progressively closer to the teacher and as a result obedience rates fell. This can suggest that the physical presence made the teachers empathise more strongly with the learners suffering and therefore made it harder to deny...

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