Read chapter 10, Conformity and Obedience, from our course e-book. Watch also th

Read chapter 10, Conformity and Obedience, from our course e-book. Watch also the required video, Psychology of Evil at https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil
If for some reason the link above doesn’t work, please go to https://www.ted.com/ and type in the search bar: Philip Zimbardo: The Psychology of Evil, and you will see the video.
There is also a transcript you can download and read for the video. When you go to the link above, click on the transcript link and you can read over the transcript.
Research the topics: Social influence, conformity, compliance, and obedience by locating sources on your own. Also, please research three well known social psychology experiments: the Asch experiment, the Milgram experiment, and the Stanford prison experiment.
After you research these topics, read the chapter, and watch the video for this editorial, write a 500- word editorial expressing your viewpoint of Social Influence and the benefits and consequences of complying, conforming and obeying. What does the video indicate are the effects of social influence? Please make sure you discuss the video in your editorial no matter what argument you use in your editorial! (see below for a list of suggested topics). Please discuss at least one experiment also.
Please double space your paper, and remember this is a persuasive paper, so you want to convince your reader that your argument is valid. Begin your editorial by stating your argument and create a fun title that lets the audience know what the focus of your editorial is.
Remember to back up your own arguments by providing evidence from your sources. Discuss specific experts in the field, and what their views are, discuss statistics, and specific authors and facts from the research you located.
Be sure to include counterarguments to present opposing views about social influence.
Editorials need to be written in your own words so make sure you are not copying ANY information from sources. You will not need to provide in-text citations, but you will need to add your sources in APA style at the bottom of your editorial in a reference list. You want to refer to your sources in your editorial, and add in specific facts, and specific studies, and specific experts in the field. This is quite common when editorial staff are writing their articles, but you should use your own words and you don’t have to cite within your article. However, if you do add in a quote from a source, then you will want to properly cite the quote by putting it in quotation marks, and adding an in-text citation.
Upload your completed article into the Editorial #1 Assignment folder.
SUGGESTED IDEAS FOR TOPICS FOR YOUR EDITORIAL
Social influence is important for our society, and therefore is beneficial when used effectively. Discuss the way conformity, compliance and obedience are necessary parts of our culture, which enables our society to function properly and orderly. Why do we need social Influence? How can people become heroes in regards to social influence?
How does social influence play a role in real world tragedies? Explain how conformity, compliance and obedience can lead to blind obedience and disastrous outcomes. Discuss the Milgram experiment and the Stanford prison experiment and how these experiments were created due to questions about the Holocaust in regards to blind obedience, conformity and compliance. Discuss real world events such as cults, strip search hoaxes, Ponzi schemes, etc. and how blind conformity and obedience had led to tragedies.
Describe how social influence is used in the workplace, and distinguish the differences between the benefits of employees and organizations complying, obeying, and conforming, but also what are some of the consequences we have seen in places of employment when people tend to follow others, or follow orders blindly. Are employees more successful in the workplace when they are conforming, complying and obeying? What does the research show about the benefits of employees and organizations following regulations, safety policies, federal and state laws, etc.?
What types of organizations have a structure that emphasizes conformity, obedience and compliance, and that emphasizes its employees or members to follow the hierarchy chain? Organizations such as, the military, religious organizations, police and fire departments, SWAT teams, hospital personnel, etc. have rules and regulations that demand that people blindly follow their superiors or the doctrines and structure of the organization, so what are the advantages and disadvantages for blindly obeying and complying? Discuss the Milgram experiment and the Stanford prison experiment.
Why do people conform to perceived norms? What is normative influence, informational influence and descriptive norms, and how do they all play a role in people changing their attitudes and behaviors to conform to norms? What is the Asch experiment and what do the results of the Asch experiment showabout conformity in the real world? What are examples in the world around us, of how people use normative influence, informational influence and descriptive norms to influence the way we behave?
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