... not otherwise have done without the order. Situational factor: is anything in the environment, including the behaviour of other people. Dispositional factor: is an enduring aspect of an individual's behaviour - his or her disposition or personality. A study which has investigated obedience to authority is Milgram 1963. It makes sense to be obedience in some situations; obedience is a healthy and necessary social behaviour. But why do people obey when the action required is inhumane? This experiment was set up by Stanley Milgram who wanted to whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority even when required to injure another person- i.e. obedience to unjust authority. The procedure that was carried out was that Milgram recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in a study of how punishment affects learning. This was to take place at Yale University. Everyone was told that they will be paid $4.50 and they ...

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