Obedience factors
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- Created on: 15-05-16 11:30
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- Obedience
- Explanations
- Agentic State
- autonomous mode
- responsible for our own behaviour
- act accordingly to the law
- responsible for our own behaviour
- pass responsibility of actions onto authority figure
- no longer feel accountable for actions
- can act in ways not possible in autonomous mode
- RESEARCH
- Milgram - p's reluctant to go on, when assured they were not responsible for actions, they continued
- REAL LIFE
- Eichmann. Following orders. Blame authority fig.
- autonomous mode
- Legitimacy of Authority
- obey those with authority
- assume they know what they're doing
- power to punish us
- uniform
- RESEARCH
- Milgram - seedy office. Obedience 65% - 48%
- Yale Uni- higher perception of legitimate authority
- Bickmann - 92% obedience when in uniform compared to 49% in ordinary clothes
- Milgram - seedy office. Obedience 65% - 48%
- obey those with authority
- Agentic State
- Situational Variables
- Proximity
- how close the person is to the consequencesof their actions when obeying authority fig.
- the further away from consequences= the more likely to obey
- closeness of participant to experimenter
- less pressure to obey if not near experimenter
- RESEARCH
- Milgram - teacher & learner same room, obedience 40%
- teacher force learners hand onto electric place, obedience 30%
- experimenter delivered instructions by telephone, obedience 20%
- Location
- locations increase perceived legitimacy of authority
- obedience to authority fig greater if in prestigious location
- RESEARCH
- Milgram - seedy office. Obedience 65% - 48%
- locations increase perceived legitimacy of authority
- Uniform
- gives perception of greater authority
- RESEARCH
- Milgram - white lab coat established authority
- Bickmann - 92% obedience when in uniform compared to 49% in ordinary clothes
- Proximity
- Dispositional Factors
- the Authoritarian Personality
- certain personality traits make people more likely to obey?
- Adorno
- Procedure: interviewed 2,000 students (American) about political beliefs & childhood experiences & used tests to gain access into their thoughts to see if racially prejudiced.
- Results: people bought up with strict parents & harsh physical punishments grew up more obedient.
- Conclusions: harsh physical punishments make child angry & hostile towards parents, then displaced onto others (usually weaker)
- 'f scale' - questionnaire to measure authoritarian personality
- RESEARCH
- Zillmer - 16 Nazi war criminals scored highly on 'f scale'. Shows links to obedience
- Elms & Milgram - highly obedient p's in Milgram study score higher on 'f scale' than those with lower obedient rates
- the Authoritarian Personality
- Explanations
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