Please view all of the following videos in their entirety and thenrespond to at least 3of the following questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCVlI-_4GZQ MilgramObedience Study
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=760lwYmpXbc Stanford Prison Experiment
Discussion Questions
In what ways do you seenormative influenceoperating among you and your peers? How difficult would it be to go against the norm? What would it take for you to not do something just because all your friends were doing it?
What are some examples of howinformational influencehelps us do the right thing? How can we usedescriptive norminformation to change problem behaviors?
Isconformitymore likely or less likely to occur when interacting with other people through social media as compared to face-to-face encounters?
When isobedienceto authority a good thing and when is it bad? What can be done to prevent people from obeying commands to engage in truly deplorable behavior such as atrocities and massacres?
In what ways doMilgramsexperimental procedures fall outside the guidelines for research with human participants? Are there ways to conduct relevant research on obedience to authority without violating these guidelines?
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