EASP Meeting "Obedience to Authority: Milgram’s Legacy and Emerging Directions" – Abstract Book

This abstract book contains the contributions to the EASP Small Group Meeting “Obedience to Authority: Milgram’s Legacy and Emerging Directions,” held at the University of Regensburg and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial, Germany, on September 9–11, 2026. The meeting brought together researchers from psychology, neuroscience, history, philosophy, and sociology to discuss obedience and disobedience to authority. The presentations covered new experimental findings, debates surrounding Stanley Milgram’s studies, emerging theoretical approaches to explaining (dis)obedience to authority, and historical research and case studies on authority, participation, and violence. On the final day, participants visited the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial, where a talk, a guided tour, and group reflection sessions brought psychological and historical perspectives into dialogue and addressed the possibilities and limits of applying psychological explanations of obedience to historical violence and commemorative practice.