You seem to believe yourself that someone must believe some kind of authority. If you can't think outside of the "must believe someone secondhand" paradigm, then I'd say that I believe Richard Bandler, The Great Zimbardo, B.F. Skinner, William James, etc, etc. Keep in mind, though I'm only saying that because you are arrogantly forcing that frame.
I'll put it this way. People like me value FUNCTIONAL and PRACTICAL UNDERSTANDING. For example, the original Candid Camera show was a collaboration between Phillip Zimbardo and Peter Funk. This video is a great illustration of The Great Zimbardo's work..
Notice how Zimbardo's application of social conformity doesn't require anyone to believe in it.
The current colleges, teaching modern science, teach only one group, and never bring up the other.
I'm self-taught. Besides, in order to state this you must also believe that there's two competing ways to see the world, as if worldviews are something manufactured by other people and must be chosen "off the rack" as it were, at the same time completely discounting that anyone could think for themselves or that there's anything beyond mental masturbation.