Obedience: situational variables
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- Created on: 28-11-18 09:10
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- Obedience: situational variables
- Weaknesses
- Variations may lack internal validity
- Milgram's conclusions provide an 'obedience alibi'
- Location
- Run-down building instead of Yale University
- obedience fell to 47.5%
- Experimenter had less authority
- Proximity
- Touch proximity variation
- hand onto shock plate - fell to 30%
- 'Remote-instruction' proximity variation
- instructions by phone - fell to 20.5% - some pretended
- Proximity variation
- Teacher and learner in the same room - 65% fell to 40%
- Touch proximity variation
- Strengths
- Research has been replicated in other cultures
- Control of variables
- Research support for the influence of situational variables
- Uniform
- Original study - grey lab coat
- Everyday clothes - obedience dropped to 20%
- uniforms does act as a strong visual of authority symbol and a cue to behave in an obedient manner
- Weaknesses
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