PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Groupthink, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Field Experiment
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Obedience: obedience to authority, compliance with the directives or orders of an authority, we are socialized to obey legitimate authority figures (even if not present) b. i. Key for social hierarchies, corporations, universities, militaries, division of labor, and governments to function: conforming to these hierarchical systems can have negative consequences c. i. Insulation from external forces or conflicting info b. iii. Illusion of invulnerability: normative conformity members afraid to criticize or speak out, obedience explicit hierarchy with an authoritarian leader, can lead to disastrous decisions e. i. Iraq war, obamacare rollout: groupthink is the asch scenario, except no one is a confederate, obedience & conformity, not the same. You"re influenced by both but the reasons are different: conformity b. i. Your peers have no special right to direct your behavior b. ii. However, you may imitate others so you don"t fall in the implied hierarchy: obedience c. i.
