Led by Stanley Milgram Simulacrum
About this course
The psychology of compliance — why ordinary people obey authority, how conformity is manufactured at scale, and what the obedience experiments reveal about information ecosystems that produce submission.
Part of Information Disorder & Democratic Decay — one of five wicked problems examined from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Led by Stanley Milgram Simulacrum
The question
The Milgram experiments described precisely: method, results, variations · why the results were surprising and what they overturned about human nature · the agentic state: how entering the role of agent shifts moral responsibility to the authority · incremental commitment: how small steps lead to la
Outcome
Demonstrates competence in the obedience experiments and situational psychology.
Sub-units
Led by Stanley Milgram Simulacrum
The question
The situational forces of the obedience experiments mapped onto digital environments · authority cues in digital interfaces (verification badges, algorithmic ranking, "recommended for you") · incremental escalation in radicalisation pipelines · the diffusion of responsibility in platform-mediated ac
Outcome
Demonstrates competence in digital obedience: compliance architecture in information systems.
Sub-units