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Crowds, obedience and the psychology of group behavior, with Stephen Reicher, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The Role of Authority in Behavior

The conditions where people are less likely to obey tend to be ones where the authority figure is less legitimate and you're less likely to identify with him. And so we argue that what's going on here is not that you don't know what's happening. It's that you're actually placed between two different moralities.

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