Compliance and the power of authority

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 67-80

  Karakostas, Alexandros ^a   Zizzo, Daniel John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antisocial behavior; Compliance; Conformism; Experimenter demand; Obedience; Social pressure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951084436     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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