The diagnosis involves children and teens who talk back to parents and teachers, who sometimes refuse to
obey authority figures, and who lose their tempers easily, labels that child or teen «mentally ill» unnecessarily.
The infamous Milgram experiment, in which subjects believed they were delivering increasingly painful high - voltage shocks to other participants for giving incorrect answers, demonstrated people's willingness to
obey an authority figure even when asked to do something reprehensible.
His obedience experiments revealed a disturbing truth about society and people's willingness to
obey authority figures even if they don't want to.
Not exact matches
Despite pleadings from the person they were shocking, 65 percent of subjects
obeyed commands from a lab - coated
authority figure to deliver potentially fatal currents.
In «The Belko Experiment,» the why turns out to be social science, much like the 1961 Milgram experiment on obedience to
authority figures, which explored individual willingness to go against personal moral conscience in
obeying commands.
Researchers assessed their parenting «styles» (in other words, the strategies and practices people use for raising their children), particularly with regards to
obeying parents as
authority figures.
A refusal to listen to reasonable directions and
obey the rules of parents, caregivers, and other
authority figures.