The example of the actions of Lieutenant William Calley at My Lai in the Vietnam War was used by the textbook to demonstrate the dangers of which social psychological concept?
Possible answer : A) Persuasion. B) Conformity. C) Compliance. D) Obedience. Before we give the answer to this question, we should find out who is Lieutenant William Calley and what he did in My Lai in Vietnam. So William Calley is a person, who gave an order to kill civilians people in My Lai! And we should to figure out why Calley did it, what social psychological concept is gilty in this massacre. Persuasion ? I don`t think so. How do you need to be persuasive to persuade a person to do this? Conformity also isn`t a main factor, that made a man do massacre, because it is a behavior that is compared with behavior of majority group. So there ara 2 options: сompliance and obedience. From this two option I will take second - obedience (or even amoral obedience ). Why did I make such choice? Because сompliance is an influence of peers, and obedience is influence authority, like senior in rank.
