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dc.contributor.authorHaslam, SA
dc.contributor.authorReicher, SD
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-16T10:36:15Z
dc.date.issued2012-11-20
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding 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.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 10 (11), article e1001426en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pbio.1001426
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/26625
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23185132en_GB
dc.rightsCopyright: © 2012 Haslam, Reicher. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_GB
dc.subjectBehavioral Researchen_GB
dc.subjectEmpirical Researchen_GB
dc.subjectHierarchy, Socialen_GB
dc.subjectHumansen_GB
dc.subjectInternal-External Controlen_GB
dc.subjectMass Behavioren_GB
dc.subjectPersonalityen_GB
dc.subjectPsychological Theoryen_GB
dc.subjectPsychology, Socialen_GB
dc.subjectSocial Conformityen_GB
dc.subjectSocial Dominanceen_GB
dc.subjectSocial Identificationen_GB
dc.titleContesting the "Nature" Of Conformity: what Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really showen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2017-03-16T10:36:15Z
exeter.place-of-publicationUnited Statesen_GB
dc.descriptionThis is the final version of the article. Available on open access from Public Library of Science via the DOI in this record.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalPLoS Biologyen_GB


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