Total obedience to God's will brings wisdom, joy and hope, Pope Francis told religious men and women. "Yes, the happiness of a religious is a consequence of this path of lowering oneself with Jesus ...

Obedience dynamics concern the conditions under which individuals comply with authority figures, even when directives conflict with personal morals. Grounded in the landmark Milgram experiments, this ...

Throughout the first 12 years of my time teaching moral theology at Benedictine College, students would occasionally ask whether or not they had to follow a law that they believed to be unjust. When ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. We are sometimes willing to accept whatever generative AI ...

Fifty years ago this month, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram published a groundbreaking article describing a unique human behavior experiment. The study and its many variations, while ethically ...

Seventy-five years ago, John Fletcher Moulton, Lord Moulton, a noted English judge, spoke on the subject of “Law and Manners.” He divided human action into three domains. At one extreme is the domain ...

I suspect many of us have a negative, uncomfortable feeling associated with the word. Maybe it reminds us how much we don’t want to be controlled or told what to do. We want to be our own persons, ...

Experts are highlighting the benefits of combining breed-specific training with mentally stimulating games to improve obedience, behavior, and the human-dog bond. Research shows that while breed ...

“Christ’s obedience comprises not simply a part of his life, but the totality of his Messianic work.” We are not dealing with an aspect of the work of Christ that can be considered apart from the ...