#346: Structuring for Obedience or Disobedience

“Want maximum obedience? Make the subject a member of a “teaching team,” in which the job of pulling the shock lever to punish the victim is given to another person (a confederate), while the subject assists with other parts of the procedure. Want people to resist authority pressures? Provide social models of peers who rebelled.”*

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*Zimbardo, Philip. The Lucifer Effect (p. 272). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Philip George Zimbardo (... born March 23, 1933) is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University.[1] He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticized for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.[2] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zimbardo
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucifer_Effect