Conformity, obedience and dissent

Canada, 1990

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Episode of Series “Psychology: the study of human behavior”.
Scientific experiments have consistently revealed how difficult it is for the individual to dissent or disobey within Western society. This video examines the psychological and social phenomena of conformity, obedience and dissent, using interviews with prominent US psychologists and referring to landmark experiments on obedience such as that conducted by Stanley Milgram. In this experiment, two-thirds of subjects applied increasingly powerful electric shocks as punishment simply because an authority figure told them to do so.

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producer

Leslie Hill

director

Harry Ratner

production company

Coastline Community College

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places

Canada

Production dates

1990

Appears in

Psychology: the study of human behavior

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Psychology: the study of human behavior

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ACMI Identifier

302958

Language

English

Subject categories

Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Obedience

Educational & Instructional

Educational & Instructional → Instructional

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Conformity

Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Obedience

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Obedience

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Science - Experiments

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Short films → Short films - Canada

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Sound

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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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