In human behavior, Obedience is an action which occurs under explicit orders or instructions from a person in authority. Obedience differs from conformity (changing behavior with the purpose of being equivalent to others in a group) and compliance (behavior swayed by another). Two major experiments on obedience is the Milgram and Zimbardo prison experiments. In the Milgram experiment, participants were given clear instructions to administer electric shocks from the experimenter, to a confederate for every answer that was wrong. Sixty-five percent (65%) of the subjects followed through to the very end of the experiment despite the agony of the confederate, even though they were hesitant, because of the experimenter’s orders. The Zimbardo prison
