Sentences with phrase «so by an authority figure»

Milgram, who was already famous for the obedience experiment in which study subjects administered painful electric shocks to other study subjects when urged to do so by an authority figure, came up with the letter method as a tool to try to solve the problem in real life.

What Milgram really wanted to find out was just how much pain people will willingly inflict if ordered to do so by an authority figure wearing a white lab coat.

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He may also be very «successful» since there are so many adults in our society whose «Child» needs to be punished by the «Parent» of an authority figure.

So the idea is to moderate the people by the people itself, but one, two or three years earlier, nit by an independent authority (of experts, clerics, media figures, or whatever).

Not only is she constantly trying to learn and get more out of her life, but she most times does so by going against what the authority figures in her life tell her she should: her school superiors, her best friends, her mother.

Smack dab in the middle of a season dominated by superheroes and minions comes «The Stanford Prison Experiment,» a re-enactment of the shocking»70s psychology project so disturbing and infamous it remains a hot topic in textbooks and a cultural touchstone for conversations about the abuse of power by authority figures.

For example, students often address teachers by their first name and view them as facilitators of learning, more so than an as an authority figure.

The Sats data released by the Department for Education in August could not give a reliable figure for attainment in 20 local authorities, because so many schools in those areas had taken part in the boycott.

The problem is that claims backed by slanted figures like the $ 1,000 / hr are not dealt with by our regulators and so the myths are allowed to be perpetuated while ORE does nothing lest they attract another anti-competition suit by the Competition Bureau and many Realtors just don't want to tempt fate by breaching the codes of ethics imposed by all three of ORE's authorities — board, provincial and federal and retaliating.