NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply – and how to resist

  • Written by Sunita Sah, Professor of Management and Organizations, Cornell University
imageDefiance need not be aggressive or loud.Sergio Mendoza Hochmann/Moment via Getty Images

You’re in a meeting when your boss suggests changing a number to make the quarterly report look stronger. Heads nod. The slides move on. You feel a knot in your stomach: Do you speak up and risk being branded difficult, or stay silent and become complicit?

M...

Read more: The science of defiance: A psychology researcher explains why people comply – and how to resist

More Articles ...

  1. Personal scandals sink CEOs faster than financial fraud, research shows
  2. Why you seriously need to stop trying to be funny at work
  3. Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it’s business more than politics
  4. Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people
  5. Why Argentina is looking to the Trump administration for a bailout − and what the US Treasury can do to help
  6. How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not
  7. NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations
  8. Trump isn’t cutting Pell Grants, after all − but other changes could complicate financial aid for some students
  9. How a devastating grape pest is reshaping vineyards across Colorado’s Western Slope
  10. 2 newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun, both from up close and afar
  11. Detroit’s Gordie Howe bridge is poised to open as truck traffic between US-Canada slows – low-income residents are deciding whether to stay or go
  12. Hobbits of Flores evolved to be small by slowing down growth during childhood, new research on teeth and brain size suggests
  13. From anime to activism: How the ‘One Piece’ pirate flag became the global emblem of Gen Z resistance
  14. Facing a shutdown, budget negotiations are much harder because Congress has given Trump power to cut spending through ‘rescission’
  15. Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhood
  16. What happens when AI comes to the cotton fields
  17. Birding by ear: How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques
  18. Title IX’s effectiveness in addressing campus sexual assault is at risk − a law professor explains why
  19. Biosphere 2’s latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable
  20. Politicizing federal troops in US mirrors use of military in Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s
  21. Some new drugs aren’t actually ‘new’ – pharmaceutical companies exploit patents and raise prices for patients, but data transparency can help protect innovation
  22. Mindfulness won’t burn calories, but it might help you stick with your health goals
  23. Trump’s targeting of ‘enemies’ like James Comey echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
  24. Trump’s use of FBI to target ‘enemies’ echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover
  25. Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before
  26. A Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger could give Trump even more influence over US media – shaping the news and culture Americans watch and stream
  27. Why can’t we feel the Earth moving?
  28. A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions
  29. How Squishmallow collecting helped me cope with grief, make new enemies and find ‘villains’ worth studying
  30. TikTok sale puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the For You Page works and what changes are in store
  31. Vaccine mandates misinformation: 2 experts explain the true role of slavery and racism in the history of public health policy – and the growing threat ignorance poses today
  32. How Philly anarcho-punks blended music, noise and social justice in the 1990s and 2000s
  33. Why are there so many protests? The US public is highly polarized, and that drives people to act
  34. Why Jimmy Kimmel’s First Amendment rights weren’t violated – but ABC’s would be protected if it stood up to the FCC and Trump
  35. Palestinian statehood is winning major new supporters at UN – but symbolic action won’t make it happen
  36. UK and other Western nations recognize Palestinian state ahead of UN meetings – but symbolic action won’t make statehood happen
  37. UK, France and other Western nations recognize Palestinian state ahead of UN meetings – but symbolic action won’t make statehood happen
  38. Hepatitis B shot for newborns has nearly eliminated childhood infections with this virus in the US
  39. Naming and categorizing objects is part of how young kids develop executive function skills – new research
  40. Suicide-by-chatbot puts Big Tech in the product liability hot seat
  41. Antisemitism on campus is a real problem − but headlines and government-proposed solutions don’t match the experience of most Jewish students
  42. New website tracks how Pennsylvania’s $2.2B in opioid settlement funds is being spent
  43. The president as partisan warrior: Trump’s rejection of traditional presidential statesmanship
  44. More Americans meet criteria for high blood pressure under new guidelines
  45. Nuclear in your backyard? Tiny reactors could one day power towns and campuses – but community input will be key
  46. US touts collaborative plan to tackle Mexico’s drug cartels – but initiative is met with denial and mistrust south of the border
  47. Sourdough and submission in the name of God: How tradwife content fuses femininity with anti-feminist ideas
  48. How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
  49. A walk across Alaska’s Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate data
  50. Scams and frauds: Here are the tactics criminals use on you in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies