Major Theoretical Approaches
The study of compliance is often recognized for the overt demonstrations of dramatic experiments such as the Stanford prison experiment and the Stanley Milgram shock experiments. These experiments served as displays of the psychological phenomena of compliance. Such compliance frequently occurred in response to overt social forces and while these types of studies have provided useful insight into the nature of compliance, today’s researchers are inclined to concentrate their efforts on subtle, indirect and/or unconscious social influences.
Those involved in this modern social-cognitive movement are attempting to discover the ways in which subjects’ implicit and explicit beliefs, opinions and goals affect information processing and decision making in settings where influential forces are present.
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