9.2

Conformity and Obedience

AP Psychology

Conformity

Types of social influence

Asch's conformity experiments (1951)

Factors that affect conformity

Key takeaway from Asch

Obedience

Milgram's obedience experiments (1963)

Factors that affected obedience

Why did they obey?

Ethical issues with Milgram

Milgram's lesson

The Stanford Prison Experiment (Zimbardo, 1971)

Setup

What happened

Zimbardo's conclusions

Criticisms

Comparing the three studies

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