The situation factors that appear to influence and affect people’s levels of obedience the most I would considered to be mainly the level of authority and prestige that a person or establishment has. In the article Dr. Stanley Milgram is a psychologist at Yale University. A school most prestigiously known for their excellence in academics. This prestige somehow conveys power, which leads to transmition of much more authority. Since Dr. Milgram belongs to this entity he, himself, conveys much more authority than if he didn’t.
As it was shown through Dr. Milgram’s experiment, people tended to disobey a bit more when entitled to do something by someone less prestigious, as it happen when they moved the experiment to other establishment out of t
I believe it is more probable that we defy someone that is in our level than someone that’s not. This is why we tend to obey more to people with more knowledge than us, either in life or intellectually. Thus these people are in a higher level. And this is one of the reasons why we tend to obey more our parents and older people, because they have more experience and knowledge of life. That is why the status of the person who is making the orders, is an important factor in the outcome of your level of obedience.
Here is where I think that knowledge based intimidation plays an important role. If you think about it we are more viable to obey somebody who we think knows more than us and whom we think actually knows what they’re doing. For example, if r
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