Bethany Miller, a Senior majoring in Social Studies and History presented her paper, written along with Alexander Koenig, that explored the role of group dynamics in peoples obedience to authority. Bethany and Alex wrote the paper Psychological Examination of Obedience in Historical and Philosophical Contexts for their Social Psychology course. The paper explored the social pressure that individuals felt to obey authority figures in extreme situations such as the Holocaust, the My Lai Massacre.
Alex was unable to attend and so Bethany presented alone. She did a very nice job of presenting from notes rather than reading her paper verbatim, which allowed the presentation to flow. She handled audience questions with aplomb including a question about the Nuremburg Trials asked by Dr. Crawford who went along with her to the conference.
Well done Bethany!
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