Event-related potentials (ERPs) were used in this study to explore the neural mechanism of obedience and conformity on the model of online book purchasing. Participants were asked to decide as quickly as possible whether to buy a book based on limited information including its title, keywords and number of positive and negative reviews. Obedience was induced by forcing participants to buy books...

ḥasan ṣabbāḥ’s specific leadership style and his followers’ specific style of obedience, because of his followers’ unquestionable and voluntary obedience to him, is one of the most outstanding examples for stylistics studies of leadership and unquestionable obedience. unquestionable obedience of the ismā‘īlīs to the leadership of ḥasan ṣabbāḥ in a totally voluntary condition and to the cost of ...

THE previous study of the obedience of faith in Romans was an attempt to determine exegetically the meaning of Paul’s unique phrase u[pakoh> pi<stewj. It was concluded that the phrase is deliberately ambiguous, denoting simultaneously the obedience which is faith and the obedience which is the product of faith. Because of its essentially two-sided character, it was suggested that the notion of...

the specific leadership style of hassan sabbah and the specific obedience style of followers, because of voluntary blind obedience of followers from hassan sabbah, is one of the most prominent samples for methodologies leadership studies and blind obedience process. in this study, we have used two different approaches towards the analysis of ismailis’s blind obedience from hassan sabbah. in one...

This work presents a unified pattern-based epistemological framework,called a Knowledge Manifold, for the description and extraction of knowledge from information. Within this framework it also presents the metaphor of the Garden Of Knowledge as a constructive example. Any type of KM is defined in terms of its objective calibration protocols procedures that are implemented on top of the partici...

This study investigates how obedience in a Milgram-like experiment is predicted by interindividual differences. Participants were 35 males and 31 females aged 26-54 from the general population who were contacted by phone 8 months after their participation in a study transposing Milgram's obedience paradigm to the context of a fake television game show. Interviews were presented as opinion polls...

‘The need to justify our beliefs to ourselves and our fellow agents subjects us to norms, and obedience to these norms produces a behavioural pattern that we must detect in others before confidently attributing beliefs to them. But there seems to be no occasion to look for obedience to an additional norm – the commandment to seek the truth. For – to return to the pragmatist doubt with which I b...