This was also proven in the Asch Experiment. It is more about subject relation to group than subject relation to authority, but disturbing nonetheless...until you get to the variations: That conformity eroded when there was a) another 'actual' subject (not actor) and b) an actor who gave the true answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments I have been inspired by maskless others in establishments 'requiring' them, during the darkest days of CA mandates, and I hope I inspired others aw well. This is our only hope, going forward. I remember talking with a friend about vaccine cards, early on, and she said she would just do the black market thing and forge one/get a forged one. I said but that GOES ALONG with an untenable and fake rule--we have to visibly and audibly refuse.