obedience: situational variations
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- Created on: 18-02-20 14:04
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- Obedience: Situational Variables
- Uniform
- in original baseline study: experimenter wore grey lab coat as a symbol of authority
- milgram carried out a variation where experimenter was called away because of a telephone call during procedure
- role was taken over by member of public (confederate) in everyday clothes
- obedience dropped to 20%
- role was taken over by member of public (confederate) in everyday clothes
- Proximity
- the physical closeness or distance of an authority figure to the person they are giving an order to
- milgram's study: teacher and learner in adjoining rooms - could hear learner but not see
- in the proximity variation they were in the same room
- in this condition, the obedience rate dropped from the baseline 65% to 40%
- 2nd variation: teacher had to force learner's hand on to electroshock plate when refused answering question
- third variation: experimenter left room and have instructions through telephone. Obedience was 20.5%
- participants frequently pretended to give shocks or gave weaker ones than they were ordered to
- Location
- conducted a variation of the study in a run-down building rather than the university setting
- experimenter had less authority
- obedience fell to 47.5%
- conducted a variation of the study in a run-down building rather than the university setting
- Uniform
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