Conflict experience and resolution underlying obedience to authority

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-544764
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.54476

Götz, Felix J.

; Mitschke, Vanessa ; Eder, Andreas B.

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Abstract

Definitions of obedience require the experience of conflict in response to an authority’s demands. Nevertheless, we know little about this conflict and its resolution. Two experiments tested the suitability of the ‘object-destruction paradigm’ for the study of conflict in obedience. An experimenter instructed participants to shred bugs (among other objects) in a manipulated coffee grinder. In ...