Will Minimal Group Membership Affect Individuals of Different Ages’ Tendency to Obey Instructions to Act Negatively Towards a Target (Who is in a Novel Ingroup versus Outgroup)?
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.319How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- ingroup favoritism; bias; conformity; authority; obedience
- Abstract
Stanley Milgram’s experiment on obedience to authority in 1961 aimed to investigate the reasons behind acts of genocide and war. Taking inspiration from this experiment, the paper’s literature review synthesises research from Stanley Milgrim, Yarrow Dunham, Judith Smetana and many other researchers to present an in-depth acknowledgement of ingroup favouritism, obedience, and the variations in behaviour between different age groups and circumstances. Then, the research proposal aims to investigate the two following questions: will minimal group membership affect individuals’ tendency to obey instructions to act negatively towards a target (who is in a novel ingroup versus outgroup)? Does the level of obedience differ between adults and teenagers?
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hao Zheng PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Will Minimal Group Membership Affect Individuals of Different Ages’ Tendency to Obey Instructions to Act Negatively Towards a Target (Who is in a Novel Ingroup versus Outgroup)? BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1878 EP - 1883 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.319 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.319 ID - Zheng2021 ER -