Question descriptionAfter reading Milgram’s article; viewing the slideshow on the Stanford prison experiment; and reading about social influence, compliance, and conformity in the Coon and Mitterer textbook earlier in this unit, address the following:
- What did the Milgram studies reveal about people’s tendencies to go against their own values in following authority?
- In your thinking, what are the similarities and differences in meaning between the words “respect” and “obedience”?
- Discuss a time when you were made uncomfortable by the request of an authority figure. How did you feel and react?
- How can we help children and those we mentor make distinctions between respectfully complying with authority and blindly following abuses of authority?
