Milgram’s situational account of construing oneself into obedience remains insightful despite pseudobiological framing.

Evidence

Still I find this construction overly dichotomous, and by its reference to releasers, a term borrowed from a now somewhat outmoded notion of physiological reflexes, overly pseudobiological. However, this more phenomenological construction of the process, coupled with Milgram’s later discussion of the situational events that enable an individual to construe himself or herself into obeying authorities, seems to me to contain many insights. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3938

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• XREF: connects to: Milgram’s obedience theory locates harsh action in situational authority pressure, not internal hatred. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 602