Meeus and Raaijmakers, 1985
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- Meeus and Raaijmakers, 1985
- background - Netherlands 20 years after Milgram's study, dutch culture more liberal than that of 1960s us.
- aim - to test obedience where harm would be done in a more up-to-date way, which is less physical but more psychological and see whether the same rate of obedience would be found.
- procedure
- 30 year old man in authority, in another room. Participants ordered to harass job applicant to make him nervous while sitting a test to determine whether he would get the job.
- control group - had no experimenter as authoritive figure
- advert in newspaper, told participants they would be paid, got 39 people, 24 put in experimental group, 15 in control group, told they were going to help in a job opportunity.
- All pariticipants were aged 18-55, both males and females, Dutch highschool education paid 13$
- conclusion
- rates of obedience were higher than in that of Milgram's study. Expected though because they are not doing any physical harm (considered less serious)
- results
- experimental - 92% went to end of experiment and made all remarks
- control (no experimenter) - 0% of pps made all remarks
- Evaluation
- fairly broad sample so can be generalised to a certain extent
- Results fairly reliable because it is a field study so quite controlled
- ethics - participants deceived, did not gain informed consent from pps, only had rtw at end of exp. (results)
- results achieve aim of study so make it valid
- pps debriefed after experiment
- details of pps kept confidential
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