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A Discussion on Obedience Study Few people are doubt about the scientificity of “Obedience to Authority”, because it is a “scientific truth” proven by social psychologist S. Milgram. It is no doubt that Milgram is the authority of “obedience”. People may ask, is it some kind of “obedience to authority” that we consider Milgram’s study as a “scientific truth”? Absolutely not. Just as we believed geocentric theory before new proof of heliocentric theory being demonstrated, we take “obedience to authority” as the science, for reason that we still not figure out what exactly the “obedience” is. Song Guandong believed that conformity is a kind of action or attitude compliance for has a understanding or taking actions under a blurry circumstance subjectively or objectively. (Song Guandong ,2005). In this case, it would lead to another formula, which is “conformity to Authority”. As a matter of fact, many people, in order to concern about the feeling or show respect to some authority, they would change or adapt their attitude or behavior to the authority, so here follows the “Compliance to Authority”. Of course, the “Herd Behavior to Authority” also happens. Therefore, to take authority as the standard of “obedience” is unscientific. In this article, it would analyze the obedience and explains the multiple natures of those behaviors and reveals the nature of obedience. First of all, what is obedience? Us psychologists Stephen M. Kosslyn Robin S. Rosenber (Stephen M. Kosslyn Robin S. Rosenber,2003) thought that obedience is the compliance of order. If cutting all the modifies of this sentence, it turns out to be “obedience is compliance” , which absolutely is not logical. As for the obedience, Shelley E. Taylor (Shelley E. Taylor, Letitia Anne Peplau, David O. Sears , 2003) define that obedience is belief on the authority that raised by powerful organs. It reflects the core concept of authority and belief. However, though it can show some characteristic of obedience, yet