Psychology › Section L · Social psychology › Topic L.4
Conformity, compliance, and obedience
Would you give an obviously wrong answer because everyone else did, or keep pressing a shock switch because a scientist told you to? Some of psychology's most famous studies tested exactly that, and their findings are still being re-examined.
In this topic
- Conformity, compliance and obedience
- Two reasons to conform
- Asch's line judgements
- What makes conformity rise or fall
- Milgram's obedience experiment
- Obedience depends on the situation
- Milgram today: replications and critiques
- How groups change effort and decisions
- Worked example: the silent meeting
- Worked example: predicting obedience
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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