MEEUS & RAAIJMAKERS -ADMINISTRATIVE OBEDIENCE - 1986
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- MEEUS & RAAIJMAKERS -ADMINISTRATIVE OBEDIENCE - 1986
- BACKGROUND
- Holland
- 20 years after Milgram (original)
- Wanted to make it as realistic as possible
- AIM
- To see whether an up to date, more modern punishment would be obided by
- PROCEDURE
- Advert in newspaper (got paid)
- Volunteer sample
- 39 participants
- 18-55, male & female, dutch high school education
- 15 participants in control group
- 24 participants in experimental group
- Psychology Department - University
- Told they were helping candidates with a job interview
- 30yr old, stern man - authority figure
- only present in experimental group
- Confederate filling out a job application in a seperate room
- asked to make 15 stressful remarks getting worse each time
- prods were given each time a participant withdrew their consent
- Advert in newspaper (got paid)
- Results
- control group
- 0% made 15 stressful remarks
- experimental group
- 92% made 15 stressful remarks
- control group
- Evaulation
- generalisable to males and females between 18-55 from Holland
- lab experiment
- highly controlled - prods, authority figure, cofederate
- reliable & replicable
- people are more likely to psychologically harm someone - higher results than milgram (application to real life)
- low ecological validity - lab experiment - artificial
- unequal amount of participants in each group - affects reliability and validity
- supported by milgram - obey an authority figure
- BACKGROUND
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