This document discusses blind obedience and how it can cause people to ignore their education and experience for a sense of belonging. It explores how wrong acts are justified through statistical guilt, animosity, and abstraction. Potential factors that can cause blind obedience are examined, such as gender, culture, and stress. The document concludes by offering some ways to decrease blind obedience, such as perspective taking and individuating people based on their assigned role rather than their authority.

1. BLIND OBEDIENCE:
A PERFORMANCE BUZZLE
PREPARED BY FAHAD ALQAHTANI
SOURCE:
“BEHAVE” BY ROBERT M. SPOLSKY

2. IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
EDUCATION + EXPERIENCE
CAN GET IGNORED FOR
SAKE OF BELONGING ?

3. “Belonging is a
Perceived Safety”

4. HOW OBEDIENCE OF WRONG ACTS ARE JUSTIFIED?
•“If I do not
do it,
someone
else will”
Statistical
Guilt
•“I may not
even did it”
Animosity
•“It is next
generation’s
issue”
Abstraction

5. Gender
Stress
Culture
That
Causes
Blind
Obedience
Possible
Factors

6. MalesFemales
Gender

7. Collectivism
Individualism
Culture

8. High
Low
Stress
Novel Context
Imagined Outside Threat
Real Outside Threat
Time Pressure

9. WAYS TO DECREASE BLIND OBEDIENCE
Perspective Taking
Individuating by Assigned Person not Authority