Unit 2; Core Studies; Bocchiaro et al
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- Bocchiaro et al
- Hypotheses
- higher % will obey than in Milgram's
- lower level of whistle-blowing than disobedience
- substantial over-estimate of tendency to disobey
- weak effects of various personality variables
- Sample: 149 VU uni students. 11 removed for suspicion
- 53 men, 96 women, average age: 20.8 years
- volunteered from flyers in cafeteria, given 7 euros
- IV: none DV: participant response
- Procedure
- 1. greeted by formally dressed experimenter who asked for names of fellow students
- 2. presented sensory deprivation study cover story
- 3. traumatic effects on those participants
- 4. wanted to replicate study at VU with young people as more sensitive
- 5. asked to write to named students encouraging them to join, could only use positive words
- 6. given 3 mins alone and then 7 mins to do task.
- 7. had a form asking if experiment protected its participants
- 8. given debrief & personality inventory
- Results
- Obeyed: 76.5% but 3.6% said they would've
- Disobey: 14.1% but 31.9% said they would've
- Whistle-blew: 9.4% but 64.5% said they would've
- people of faith more likely to whistle-blow
- Ethics: only deception broken
- Reliability & Validity
- IR: standardised procedure
- ER: sample large enough with patterns occuring
- IV: participant variable in their morality, some may have given false names
- EV: small age range but similar to real life; asked to do surveys at uni
- Ethnocentrism
- only applicable to young dutch people
- Summary
- Social: Participants felt obliged even if they didn't want to cause harm
- Response to authority: more likely to obey to those in power
- Debates: reductionism vs holism
- used personality tests to see if behaviour came from elsewhere
- Hypotheses
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