Agentic state and legitimacy of authority
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- Created on: 10-09-17 12:25
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- Agentic state and legitimacy of authority
- Legitimacy of authority
- Definition of the situation
- Participants tnd to accept the definition given eg that the behaviour is fine
- Authority figure
- Someone perceived as in a position of social control who will take the blame
- Institution
- Doesn't have to be reputable or distinguished
- Category rather than its relative status within this category
- Definition of the situation
- Agentic state
- Shift from autonomous state to agentic state - agentic shift
- Not being responsible for for their own actions - authority takes responsibility
- Self image
- Maintain a positive self image
- Shifting responsibility to someone else means self image is no longer affected
- Binding factors
- Social etiquette means participant won't break off
- Dont want to be arrogant or rude
- Social etiquette means participant won't break off
- Evaluation
- Loss of self control
- Fennis and Aarts (2012)
- Agentic shift also applies to other forms of social influence
- Agentic shift is caused by a reduction in personal control
- This causes acceptance of external influence to compensate
- Lab and field experiments showed less control resulted in greater obedience, bystander apathy and compliance with behavioural requests
- Fennis and Aarts (2012)
- Just cruel
- Given the situation to, some people express their sadistic impulses such as in SPE
- No obvious authority figure
- Not all went to 450V or abused prisoners
- Real life obedience - agentic state
- Lifton (1986)
- Milgram claimed there is a shift between autonomous and agentic
- German doctors in Auschwitz
- Changed caring about welfare of patients into carrying out lethal experiments
- Lifton (1986)
- Obedience in the cockpit
- Tarnow (200)
- US national transportation safety board
- Review of all serious aircraft incidents between 1978 and 1990
- Where black box was found and crew actions were a contributing factor
- Dependance on the captains authority and experitise affected 19/37 incidents
- Tarnow (200)
- Loss of self control
- Legitimacy of authority
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