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| Title |
Contesting the “Nature” Of Conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo's Studies Really Show
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLoS Biology, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001426 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen. D. Reicher |
| Abstract |
Understanding of the psychology of tyranny is dominated by classic studies from the 1960s and 1970s: Milgram's research on obedience to authority and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment. Supporting popular notions of the banality of evil, this research has been taken to show that people conform passively and unthinkingly to both the instructions and the roles that authorities provide, however malevolent these may be. Recently, though, this consensus has been challenged by empirical work informed by social identity theorizing. This suggests that individuals' willingness to follow authorities is conditional on identification with the authority in question and an associated belief that the authority is right. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 262 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 48 | 18% |
| United States | 38 | 15% |
| Australia | 6 | 2% |
| Sweden | 6 | 2% |
| Philippines | 5 | 2% |
| Ireland | 4 | 2% |
| Turkey | 4 | 2% |
| Japan | 4 | 2% |
| France | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 34 | 13% |
| Unknown | 109 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 184 | 70% |
| Scientists | 40 | 15% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 22 | 8% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 14 | 5% |
| Unknown | 2 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 564 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | <1% |
| Italy | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Hungary | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | <1% |
| Unknown | 541 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 133 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 90 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 64 | 11% |
| Researcher | 38 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 25 | 4% |
| Other | 90 | 16% |
| Unknown | 124 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 239 | 42% |
| Social Sciences | 48 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 30 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 25 | 4% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 19 | 3% |
| Other | 68 | 12% |
| Unknown | 135 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 313. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 November 2023.
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