Question

Robert volunteers at the local animal shelter. after ten days, abandoned animals are put to death. this distresses robert and goes against his ethical beliefs, but because the manager of the shelter says he must, robert participates in the euthanasia. this is an example of:

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: the findings in Milgram's authority experiment.

Millgram's authority experiment concluded that people in general had the tendency to follow every orders from the person that they acknowledged as a leader. The conformity that displayed is still very strong even if those people genuinely have conflicting principles/opinion regarding the order.