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Polish term

Ania

ulegać silnym autorytetom

Polish to English Other Psychology

kwestionariusz kompetencji społecznych; zdanie: Osoba ta może wykazywać skłonność do ulegania silnym autorytetom.

Chyba nie "strong authorities"? Grzebałam trochę w Google'u i zdaje się, że nie jest to właściwe tłumaczenie, ale może się mylę.

Z góry dziękuję za pomoc.

Proposed translations (English)

3 +2	to be influenced/to yield to powerful figures of authority/authority figures	Caryl Swift
4	to follow strong personalities	Adam Lankamer
3	be influenced by strong personalities	ironsz
3	to succumb to strong personalities	EnglishDirect

Change log

May 21, 2008 07:01: EnglishDirect changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (3): Adam Lankamer, ironsz, EnglishDirect

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Discussion

Ewa Dabrowska May 21, 2008:

Zastanawiam się, czy może poasowałby tusłowo "role model". "Uleganie" ma może trochę nagatywne zabarwienie ale "silny autorytet" nie ma.

Proposed translations

4 mins

Caryl Swift

Poland

1593 answers

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to be influenced/to yield to powerful figures of authority/authority figures

References follow

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"authority figure
A real or projected person in a position of power; one's parents, police, and boss are authority figures to some people; during the transference phase of psychoanalysis, the psychoanalyst becomes an authority figure. "
( From: "Online Medical Dictionary" http://tinyurl.com/4gsv45 )

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"Numerous questions have been raised about the ethics of Stanley Milgram's infamous obedience experiments, in which willing human subjects carried out an authority figure's barbaric instructions. "
( From: http://tinyurl.com/3ghcgo )

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Note added at 10 mins (2008-05-21 07:04:59 GMT)
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I'm sorry - there is a typo in my answer; it should read:

'to be influenced BY/to yield to ...'

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Note added at 12 mins (2008-05-21 07:07:05 GMT)
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"The emotional anchor to authority begins at a young age as children become emotionally anchored to the authority figure of their parents.

This anchoring to authortarian figures from early age later sets the stage to conforming to other authority figures such as teachers and doctors, and other persons such as governments etc.

A classic experiment involving an authority figure was done with people who were ordered to electrecute people in a booth."
( From: http://tinyurl.com/543syf )

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"The Milgram experiment was a seminal series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience."
( From: http://tinyurl.com/5tjxs )

You could also consider:

'to comply with powerful authority figures'

"Humans have been shown to be surprisingly obedient in the presence of perceived legitimate authority figures, as demonstrated by the Milgram experiment in the 1960s. Stanley Milgram carried out his experiments to discover how the Nazis had managed to get ordinary people to take part in the mass murder of the Holocaust. The experiment showed that compliance with authority was the norm, not the exception. A similar effect was found in the Stanford prison experiment."
( From: http://tinyurl.com/3rd5ua )

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