The field experiment conducted by Hofling et al (1966) which produced surprising results of nurses complying and obeying the orders of doctors to the extent of violating protocol by giving more than acceptable doses of medication provides evidence to the extent at which obedience and submitting to higher authority works in our society. Obedience can be defined as compliance with an order, request or submitting to a higher authority. There are certain conditions that should exist for obedience to happen which includes “The person giving the order was close at hand and perceived to be a legitimate authority figure (Myers, 2017), this evidence is shown in the experiment of Social Psychologist Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment where a teacher
