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To what extent are the findings from obedience research consistent with the view that human beings are obedient to authority?
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To what extent are the findings from obedience research consistent with the view that human beings are obedient to authority? Following the previous seventy years of history, obedience to authority has played an important part in the shaping of today's society. It is these atrocities of the Second World War, the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, the killing of the Kurds In Iraq and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo that has sparked psychologists to look into the way humans react to people in authority. Obedience is defined as where an individual complies in response to a direct request. While there are many examples of obedience in day-to-day life, it is those acts of destructive obedience that have been of particular interest to psychologists. When analysing research carried out by various psychologists we can see that there is a strong correlation in findings. Firstly the study carried out by Milgram in 1963,...
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