Conformity And Obedience
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Conformity is being able to adhere to social norms to gain respect and also to have a sense of belonging. A study of conformity was done by S.E.Asch who did a study where subjects were given a 6 tasks of matching one line with one of equal length out of a group of 3 lines. The answer was obvious an ....
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.... the ability to take and follow orders from authority. Milgram did a study ending in 1976 which involved 1 person operating switches where it administered a shock to a imaginary learner that the subject could not see but could hear and the learner was pairing cards but each time he got one wrong he was administered an electric shock each shock higher than the last reaching a shock high enough to kill the learner. and because milgram was hte one giving the orders to shock the learner he was an au ....
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