Social Psychology: Obedience to authority

Why do good people do bad things?
This lesson takes a twist on the classic study by Milgram. Students begin with a questionnaire and four corners activity to debate how they would act in a given situation. Small groups will read various real-world scenarios of obedience to authority and try to conclude what the causes people to obey. Finally, they will doodle their way through a Crash Course video and a Common Lit article about the classic Milgram experiment.

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