IB: Resisting pressures to obey
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- Created on: 14-05-15 11:18
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- IB: Resisting pressures to obey
- Feeling responsible and emapthetic
- Australian study, only 16% of female students gave 450 volts, attributed to learner being another female student- more empathy
- Milgram: One participant when asked why stopped said they'd experienced pain growing up in Nazi Germany - did not want to inflict pain
- Triggering of painful memories can awake people from angentic state
- Felt responsible for harm produced, the other room was an insufficient buffer
- Triggering of painful memories can awake people from angentic state
- "I have a choice. I can walk out of here. I can't hurt this man"
- When participants could see the learner obedience dropped to 40%, and 30% when using force
- Disobedient role models
- Watching other people disobey may encourage resistance to blind obedience
- Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver and give up seat for white person, so became a role model for other black people
- Questioning motives and authority
- Legitimacy, motives, expertise of authority figures can prevent automatic obedience
- Milgram in office blocks- obedience dropped to 47.5% lack of prestigious surroundings meant particpants questioned more
- Reactance
- Want to protect sense of freedom, Gamson found once someone voiced concern about what being asked to do, others joined -> rebellion against unjust authority
- Blantant attempts to resrtict freedom -> boomerang effect -> opposite of what is asked
- Feeling responsible and emapthetic
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