Individuals’ compliance with information security policies is important for the overall security of organizations. It has been suggested that obedience cultures exist in organizations and that social processes and structures play a role for the compliance intentions and compliance behavior of individuals. This paper investigates if individuals’ compliance intention is more homogenous within soc...

From the beginning social psychology has concerned itself, from different perspectives, with processes of social influence, producing an imposing amount of research. Given this vastity and heterogeneity, it is opportune to restrict the sphere of these studies, to understand better their specific nature. Social influence can be assessed in all situations where there are two “social entities” (tw...

Stanley Milgram's Obedience to Authority experiments remain one of the most inspired contributions in the field of social psychology. Although Milgram undertook more than 20 experimental variations, his most (in)famous result was the first official trial run - the remote condition and its 65% completion rate. Drawing on many unpublished documents from Milgram's personal archive at Yale Universi...

Previous experiments document that subjects' behavior in a Prisoners' dilemma depends on the name that the experimenters give the game. Three competing hypotheses purport to explain such labeling effects. (i) The obedience hypothesis proposes that people instinctively try to behave appropriately, and that the label suggests which behavior is appropriate. (ii) The coordination hypothesis propose...

The repression of competition by mechanisms of policing is now recognized as a major force in the maintenance of cooperation. General models on the evolution of policing have focused on the interplay between individual competitiveness and mutual policing, demonstrating a positive relationship between within-group diversity and levels of policing. We expand this perspective by investigating what...

In this cross-cultural study, we tested 2 main hypotheses: first, that an early self-concept along with self-other differentiation is a universal precursor of prosocial behavior in 19-month-olds, and second, that the importance attached to relational socialization goals (SGs) concerning interpersonal responsiveness (obedience, prosocial behavior) is related to toddlers' prosocial behavior. Cont...

This paper aims to examine the association between filial piety (FP) and the perceived hopelessness among Chinese aging population in the U.S. Data were drawn from the Population Study of Chinese Elderly in Chicago, known as the PINE Study. Both the expectation and actual receipt of six domains of FP were measured. The perceived hopelessness was assessed by the modified 7-item Beck Hopelessness...

The article presents studies examining whether the better than average (BTA) effect appears in opinions regarding obedience of individuals participating in an experiment conducted in the Milgram paradigm. Participants are presented with a detailed description of the experiment, asked to declare at what moment an average participant would cease their participation in the study, and then asked to...

Dr.med.Gottfried Benn (the famous poet) joined the "Sanitatsdienst" deliberately as a kind of non-political refuge (as apparently other physicians did)? How many German military doctors reacted like Oberstabsarzt Dr Moller, who saw an SS unit shoot a group of Polish "partisans" (including children aged between three and eight) and wrote a critical report to Hitler, the "Oberste Befehlshaber der...

Past studies document that Latino familial cultural values (i.e. familism, affiliative obedience and filial obligation) protect against depressive symptoms and promote academic resilience in adolescence. However, some studies suggest that familial cultural values differ across gender, with females reporting greater obligations and fewer freedoms compared to their male counterparts. We examined ...