http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/revisiting-milgram-and-zimbardos-studies/ Wed, 22 May 2013 05:13:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/revisiting-milgram-and-zimbardos-studies/#comment-58487 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:43:43 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=19180#comment-58487 [...] Revisiting Milgram and Zimbardo’s Studies – via thesituationist.wordpress.com – Understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classic studies from the 1960s and 1970s: Milgram’s research on obedience to authority and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. Supporting popular notions of the banality of evil, this research has been taken to show that people conform passively and unthinkingly to both the instructions and the roles that authorities provide, however malevolent these may be. Recently, though, this consensus has been challenged by empirical work informed by social identity theorizing. This suggests that individuals’ willingness to follow authorities is conditional on identification with the authority in question and an associated belief that the authority is right. [...]

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/revisiting-milgram-and-zimbardos-studies/#comment-37052 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:59:21 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=19180#comment-37052 [...] Revisiting Milgram and Zimbardo’s Studies – via thesituationist.wordpress.com – Understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classic studies from the 1960s and 1970s: Milgram’s research on obedience to authority and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment. Supporting popular notions of the banality of evil, this research has been taken to show that people conform passively and unthinkingly to both the instructions and the roles that authorities provide, however malevolent these may be. Recently, though, this consensus has been challenged by empirical work informed by social identity theorizing. This suggests that individuals’ willingness to follow authorities is conditional on identification with the authority in question and an associated belief that the authority is right. [...]

]]> http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/revisiting-milgram-and-zimbardos-studies/#comment-36983 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:14:54 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=19180#comment-36983 Reblogged this on getbye.

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