Obedience: It is most direct form of social influence. Obedience refers to accepting commands/orders from the authority. Authority refers to a person who has inherent power to give reward or punishment.
If a person has power over another, obedience can be demanded; such a person usually has the means to enforce orders.
• Milligram’* studies seem to suggest that the ordinary people are willing, may be with some, reluctance, to harm an innocent person if ordered by someone in authority. It has been observed that obedience to authority relieves the individual from the responsibility of their actions.
• Individual believes that if he/she will not obey then it will attract penalty.
• Authority commands for destructive obedience are gradually increased from lesser to greater levels of ****.
Sometimes events involved in destructive obedience move so quickly, that the people obeying orders have little time for thinking logically.
