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Obedience: example

Milgram (1965) found 65% of participants followed orders to inflict 450v of electric shocks to another participant, the confederate 'learner', whilst they cried out in pain.


Zimbardo(1971) Stanford students were prisoners or prison guards. Guards behaved oppressively and abusively to prisoners and eventually prisoners became submissive and withdrawn.

Milgram(1965) Zimbardo(1971)

Obedience: importance

-Research into obedience helps with the understanding of how and why humans can override morals and beliefs to follow orders they wouldn't usually, regardless of the ramifications through deindividuation.


-Helps to understand the atrocities of the holocaust and Abu Ghraib to prevent future occurances.


-Milgram(1965) and Zimbardo(1971)



Atrocities, the holocaust, abu ghraib

Obedience: explain

Social influence that comes as a result of a direct order or demand from somebody of authority.

Social influence, demand.