Bocchiaro
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- Bocchiaro
- Background
- Building on Milgrams research to find out who disobeys and who blows the whistle
- Area
- Social
- Aim
- 1. To investigate rates of disobedience and whistle blowing in a situation where the instructions are ethically wrong
- 2. To investigate the accuracy of people's estimates of whistle blowing in the situation
- 3. To investigate the role of dis-positional factors in disobedience and whistle blowing
- Sample
- 149 undergraduate students 96 females 53 males Amsterdam University Mean age 20.8 years old
- Recruitment Method
- Self-selected
- Advertisements in university canteen
- Self-selected
- Research Method
- Structured Observation (No independent variable)
- Data
- Quantitaive
- Percentages of who; obeyed, disobeyed, blew the whistel
- Results from the personality tests
- Qualitative
- What participants said about why they obeyed/ disobeyed
- Quantitaive
- Results
- Predicted; (You) obey = 3.6% disobey = 31.9% Whistle-blow = 64.5%
- Predicted; (Others) obey = 18.8% disobey = 43.9% whistle-blow = 37.3%
- Actual; obey = 76.5% disobey = 14.1% whistle-blow = 3.4%
- Findings; No difference between gender, personality or type of religion, People who have more faith are more likely to blow the whistle
- obedient people blamed someone else, disobedient people felt responsible
- Conclusions
- Suggested that whistle blowers have more faith
- People obey authority even when it's unjust
- What you think you/others will do is usually different to what they will do
- Behaving in a moral manner is challenging even when it seems simple
- Pilot study
- 8 pilot studies with 92 participants
- Gain credibility (does it have mundane realism) and presumptive consent
- Cover Story
- Sensory deprivation study. Want to gain data for young people. The previous participants suffered horrible hallucinations.
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