Get Free Access for 10 Days!
Article

Simply Psychology: Social Psychology: Obedience to Authority

Curated by ACT

Introduces the concept of obedience to authority and explains how it is different from conformity. Includes three downloadable articles on Stanley Milgram's famous experiments on obedience, which discuss how his research might help to explain the blind submission to authority of Nazis such as Adolf Eichmann.

3 Views 4 Downloads
Concepts
nazism
Show More Show Less
Additional Tags
obedience as social influence, adolf eichmann, simply psychology: social psychology: obedience to authority, stanley milgram, obedience experiment, obedience
Show More Show Less
Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)