PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Field Experiment, Groupthink, Longitudinal Study
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Compliance with the directives or orders of an authority. Obedience allows for social order: key ingredient for social hierarchies, corporations, universities, militaries, division of labor, maintenance of large organizations, and governments to function, more central value in the east than in the west (filiopiety) Conforming to these hierarchical systems can have negative consequences: example: nazi germany, obey the orders of an authority to hurt or even kill other human beings. Groupthink happens when maintaining harmony among group members is more important than carefully analyzing the problem at hand: highly cohesive with a directive leader, failing to consider alternatives; moral certainty. Normative conformity members afraid to criticize or speak out. Obedience explicit hierarchy with an authoritarian leader. The(cid:396)e"s a lot of theo(cid:396)(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ot a lot of data. Mai(cid:374) data poi(cid:374)ts ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:272)ase studies: though it"s still considered to have heuristic value, much like piaget and.
