Dr. Aris is a junior research fellow working late to finish an important grant application before the midnight deadline. The laboratory director, Professor Sterling, instructs her to stop what she is doing immediately to catalog and shred archive boxes of old paper journals in the basement storage.
Using agency theory, explain why Dr. Aris might have obeyed Professor Sterling's instructions despite the risk to her own funding deadline.
171 exam-style questions on Edexcel A Level Psychology Content, covering Theories of obedience, Research into obedience (Milgram variations), Factors affecting obedience and dissent, Explanations and research into prejudice, Factors affecting prejudice, Individual differences in obedience/prejudice, and Developmental psychology in obedience/prejudice. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.