Bickman on the street
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- Created on: 23-04-15 11:39
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- Bickman On the street
- Aims
- To test ecological validity of Milgram's work in a realistic setting
- Examine effects of perceived authority on obediance
- Procedure
- 3 male experimenters randomly selected 153 pedestrians in Brooklyn New York
- Experimenters were dressed: sports coat andtie, milkman uniform and guards uniform
- Experimenter gave orders eg: pick this bag up for me
- Evaluation
- Bickman's orders not as bad as Milgram's. Obedience was more understandable
- Field experiment= high ecological validity and mundane realism
- Field experiment= less control than lab, could be effected by confounding variables
- Ethics= No informed consent and debriefing difficult without alerting others
- Conclusion
- Obedience can be related to amount of perceived authority
- Milgram's study does have some ecological validity
- Findings
- Participants most likely to obey experimenter dressed as guard and less as milkman or civilian
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