djcb comments on Study: Encouraging Obedience Considered Harmful - Less Wrong

21 Post author: MBlume 14 May 2010 06:11PM

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Comment author: djcb 16 May 2010 06:10:05PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for the link -- I'll put it on my reading list. For some reason I only know Milgram's work from secondary sources.

Also relevant here are the Asch conformity experiments ; they also show the tendency of most people to conform, without the dramatic effects used in the Milgram experiments.