Bocchiaro
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- Bocchiaro - Obedience and Whistle blowing
- Participants
- 149 undergrads (96 Women, 53 Men)
- Mean age = 20/21 years old
- Were given course credit or €7
- 11 participants removed because of they guessed the aim
- Research Method
- AIM:to investigate the rate of obedience disobedience and whistle blowing in a situation where no physical violence was involved
- Lab Experiment (no IV so a scenario study)
- Took place at a uni in Amsterdam
- Standardised procedures
- same experience for all participants
- Materials
- Computer
- Mailbox
- Research Committee Forms (whistle blowers form)
- Procedure
- 8 pilot tests to ensure it was morally okay
- Comparison groups provided with detailed setting and asked "what would they do? what would the student do?"
- Participants greeted by a male, informed of the task, given the right to withdraw
- Participants given cover story, told that research forms in the next room
- Participants told to get people to do experiment, had to be positive
- Whole procedure took 40 minutes
- Results & Conclusions
- Comparison group
- themselves obey = 3.6% students = 18.8%
- themselves disobey= 31.9% students = 43.9%
- themselves whistle blow = 64.5% students = 37.3%
- Partcipants
- 114 obeyed, 21 disobeyed, 9 whistle blew
- 9 anonymous whistle blowers, 5 open whistle blowers
- no differences in relation to gender or religion, difference between level of faith
- 114 obeyed, 21 disobeyed, 9 whistle blew
- Conclusion
- behaving in a moral behaviour is challenging for some people
- whistle blowers have more faith
- Comparison group
- Participants
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