Would You Obey?
Posted by The Situationist Staff on August 14, 2011
Here is another segment from John Quinones’s excellent ABC 20/20 series titled “What Would You Do?” — a series that, in essence, conducts situationist experiments through hidden-camera scenarios. This episode asks, “Would You Obey a Total Stranger”“
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To review a sample of related Situationist posts, see
- “The Situation of Retail Discrimination,“
- “Racial Prejudice in Real Estate Markets,”
- “Journalists as Social Psychologists & Social Psychologists as Entertainers,”
- “Solomon Asch’s Famous Compliance Experiment,”
- “The Situation of Bullying,”
- “Jane Elliot’s Situationist Pedagogy,”
- “Black History is Now,”
- “The Toll of Discrimination on Black Women,”
- “The Cognitive Costs of Interracial Interactions,” and
- “The Racialized Situation of Vandalism and Crime.”
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