Working Toward the Experimenter: Reconceptualizing Obedience Within the Milgram Paradigm as Identification-Based Followership

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 315-324

  Reicher, Stephen D ^a   Haslam, S Alexander ^b   Smith, Joanne R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disobedience; Milgram; obedience; social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863204079     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1745691612448482     Document Type: Article

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