Measurable correlations between ethics and world wiews?

[tama]

Are there any comparative studies between world wiews (religious etc.) held and reactions in studies measuring ills of authoritarianism on popular scale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment ?

[Jim__]

1. AUTHORITARIANISM, RELIGIOUS PRIMING, AND MORALITY

I haven't read the paper, but the abstract sounds like it might be close to what you are looking for -- if not, you may find some good sources in the bibliography. The abstract:

Abstract
Authoritarianism is a stable construct in terms of individual differences (social attitudes based
on personality and values), but its manifestations and behavioral outcomes may depend on
contextual factors. In the present experiment, we investigated whether authoritarianism is
sensitive to religious influences in predicting rigid morality. Specifically, we investigated
whether authoritarians, after supraliminal religious priming, would show, in hypothetical
moral dilemmas, preference for impersonal societal norms even at the detriment of
interpersonal, care-based prosociality toward proximal persons and acquaintances in need.
The results confirmed the expectations, with a small effect size for the religious priming 
authoritarianism interaction. In addition, these results were specific to participants’
authoritarianism and not to their individual religiosity. The interaction between authoritarian
dispositions and religious ideas may constitute a powerful combination leading to behaviors
that are detrimental for the well-being and the life of others, even proximal people, in the
name of abstract deontology.

My personal expectation, if I understand what you're driving at, is conformity (especially in the presence of a fear factor) is a human trait rather than a cultural trait.

[tama]

2. I would like to challenge your expectation

Anything that humans are capable of, of course is a human trait - but just as one potential, not as defining character. Cultural and other environments, the mythologies and world wiews shared and dynamically projected (so far surviving in evolutionary adaptation) over the whole of the inclusive and participative cosmology, so also culture and with those adaptive human traits adapt and go along with the larger inclusive whole - which causation from inclusive wholes to their participants, while undeniable, seems to be still offering lot's of room for mathematical imagination and formulations. Suggesting infinity, of a kind.

[Jim__]

3. I agree that different environments will lead to different manifestations of human traits.

My thought on conformity is that it is an aspect of an authoritarian society. I also believe that authoritarianism is a necessary cultural trait when the survival of a tribe is challenged by a neighboring tribe and that any surviving human culture has had numerous such challenges and so all surviving human cultures have a strong component of authoritarianism - and so, conformity.