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  2. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View - Wikipedia

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    Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View is a 1974 book by social psychologist Stanley Milgram concerning a series of experiments on obedience to authority figures he conducted in the early 1960s. This book provides an in-depth look into his methods, theories and conclusions.

  3. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    Obedience is a form of social influence that derives from an authority figure, based on order or command. [12] The Milgram experiment , Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment , and the Hofling hospital experiment are three particularly well-known experiments on obedience, and they all conclude that humans are surprisingly obedient in the ...

  4. The Book of Beliefs and Opinions - Wikipedia

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    In the first two sections, Saadia discusses the metaphysical problems of the creation of the world (i.) and the unity of the Creator (ii.); in the following sections, he discusses revelation (iii.) and the doctrines of belief based upon divine justice, including obedience and disobedience (iv.), as well as merit and demerit (v.).

  5. Milgram experiment - Wikipedia

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    Milgram elaborated two theories: The first is the theory of conformism, based on Solomon Asch conformity experiments, describing the fundamental relationship between the group of reference and the individual person. A subject who has neither ability nor expertise to make decisions, especially in a crisis, will leave decision making to the group ...

  6. Satisfaction theory of atonement - Wikipedia

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    The satisfaction theory of atonement is a theory in Catholic theology which holds that Jesus Christ redeemed humanity through making satisfaction for humankind's disobedience through his own supererogatory obedience. The theory draws primarily from the works of Anselm of Canterbury, specifically his Cur Deus Homo ('Why Was God a Man

  7. Deferred obedience - Wikipedia

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    Deferred obedience was linked by Freud to the effects of repression, [1] with especial reference to the father complex.In the case of the Rat Man, Freud described the different phases of his complex attitude towards his father: "As long as his father was alive it showed itself in unmitigated rebelliousness and open discord, but immediately after his death it took the form of a neurosis based ...

  8. Emanuel V. Towfigh - Wikipedia

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    Integrating theories of law obedience: How utility-theoretic factors, legitimacy, and lack of self-control influence decisions to commit low-level crimes (joint work with Berenike Waubert de Puiseau and Andreas Glöckner ), Judgement and Decision Making (JDM), Vol. 14(3) (2019), pp. 318–334 [11]

  9. Obedience - Wikipedia

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    Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure". [1] Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which some authors define as behavior influenced by peers while others use it as a more general term for positive responses to another individual's request, [2] and from conformity, which is ...