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No, you can't teach someone loyalty. Loyalty is something that can only be emulated. You can't teach a person how to be loyal, it's something that you have to make a mental decision to do.

Loyalty is something that you develop on your own, it could be inspired by watching someone else being loyal or simply by wanting to stand by someone that you admire. Loyalty is an attribute, not a skill, you don't teach people attributes, that's something that they acquire by themselves.

Of course it can

Marketing does it all the time.

BRAND LOYALTY

Loyalty is simply a psychological belief or preference for one thing over another. Loyalty to a friend, loyalty to a spouse/lover or loyalty to your favourite brand of ice cream.

You trust that you will not be hurt, give them your loyalty and in return they will be loyal to you.

Loyalty can also be changed or moved over time. You can be taught (or manipulated might be a better phrase) to be loyal to certain factions, brands or whatever through rewards, punishment or various other external stimuli