Fifty years ago this month, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram published a groundbreaking article describing a unique human behavior experiment. The study and its many variations, while ethically ...

Most people in the family of faith learn the importance and blessing of obeying God, but those who choose to disobey lose out on God’s blessings or face devastating consequences. Some people in the ...

Milgram concluded that most of us can be induced to torture someone else at the behest of an authority figure – but that’s only part of the story. afromztoa/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Chances are you’ve ...

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used in this study to explore the neural mechanism of obedience and conformity on the model of online book purchasing. Participants were asked to decide as quickly ...

Psychological research is replete with intriguing insights into human behavior. One such insight comes from a group of researchers from Regensburg, Göttingen, and Würzburg, who examined the conflict ...

According to Merriam-Webster, obedience’s definition is “the act or instance of obeying; the quality or state of being obedient.” Likewise, the definition of obedient is “submissive to the restraint ...

When Utah legislators passed a bill requiring the review and removal of “pornographic or indecent” books in school libraries, they likely did not imagine the law would be used to justify banning the ...