PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stanley Milgram, Tom Cruise, Milgram Experiment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

Asch study has been replicated more than a dozen times all over the world. Ex. conformity is highest for british unemployed black people sense of community. Conformity tends to be low in upper social segment. Conformity tends to be high in agricultural society. Low in societies where survival depends on hunting and gathering (individualistic) People need to work together (more successful) The degree which a society, for their survival, needs to conform or not conform. Ex. eskimos have lower level of conformity. People need to explore their own environment to survive and level of dependency is lower. The difference between conformity and obedience is that obedience is because of the demand of what the authority says rather than conformity that is a pressure to act like others. So many people losing their lives because individuals would blindly obey. 65% participants continue to extreme intensity of shocks. Conducted half a dozen versions of this study.