PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation, Justin Bieber, Milgram Experiment
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The nurse"s obedience experiment much lower level of compliance when the drug was familiar and when they had an opportunity to consult with someone: nurses only listen to doctor and doctors don"t like to be questioned. Nurses don"t say anything to doctor because of fear of authority. If nurse knows a shot will kill someone, they still wouldn"t ask doctor because they"re afraid to ask the doctor: hard to be person to speak up first but not hard to speak up second. Knowledge and social support increase the likelihood of resistance to authority. Norms can be arbitrary, pervasive and unintentional: unwritten rules that everyone follows. Can be based on science and logic or just random made up stuff. We know them by heart an do them without question: last for thousands of years and many generations. Belief that when you sneeze a devil enters your body and so you say bless you and give a blessing: ex.
