Maravarman Kulasekara Pandyan Inscription of Religious Obedience

Jehovah's Witnesses' refusal of blood: obedience to scripture and religious conscience.

Jehovah's Witnesses are students of the Bible. They refuse transfusions out of obedience to the scriptural directive to abstain and keep from blood. Dr Muramoto disagrees with the Witnesses' religious beliefs in this regard. Despite this basic disagreement over the meaning of Biblical texts, Muramoto flouts the religious basis for the Witnesses' position. His proposed policy change about accept...

Behavioral Study of Obedience.

This article describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. It coruists of ordering a naive S to administer increasingly more w e r e punishment to a victim in the context of a learning experiment. Punishment is .administered by means of a shock generator with 30 graded switches ranging from Slight Shock to Danger: Severe Shock. The victim is a confederate of th...

Obedience lite.

Jerry M. Burger's partial replication of Stanley Milgram's (1963, 1965, 1974) classic experiments on obedience to authority is considered from the viewpoint of a contributor and witness to the original obedience experiments. Although Burger's replication succeeded in terms of gaining the approval of his local institutional review board, it did so by removing a large portion of the stressful cir...

A New Inscription of Xerxes

Procrastination and Obedience

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