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Obedience And Conformity

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The main difference between conformity and obedience is that conforming means to yield under pressure from others for a need to fit in, to be accepted and to belong to that group, whereas obedience means to comply with instructions from a figure in authority regardless of whether we agree with the instruction or not. b: The main findings of Milgrams studies showed that 65% of participants in the studies were prepared to inflict pain at the highest level because they were told to. Milgram introduced variations in the studies and the tests were replicated in other countries and different settings but the results are all about the same. It would appear that we lack the ability to defy authority as when the experimenter wasn’t in the room the
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