Obedience
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- Created on: 28-05-13 15:19
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- Obedience
- Milgram 1963
- How much pain someone would inflict on another person when under the instruction of an authoritative figure
- Refer to separate sheet for details
- Explaining obedience
- Gradual commitment
- We ask someone to do a small thing first then increase it
- Shown in Milgram's experiment - increasing voltage
- PP's commit to a certain course of action thus difficult to change your mind
- Agentic shift
- Agentic state: when a person sees themselves as an agent for carrying out someone elses wish
- Autonomous stat: when a person sees themselves acting on his own
- Milgram claimed that when a person enters a hierarchy they shift from autonomous to agentic
- The role of buffers
- When the teacher cannot see the harm
- In Milgrams experiment the teacher and learner were in different rooms. When in the same room obedience dropped
- When the teacher cannot see the harm
- Justifying obedience
- People are willing to surrender their freedom of action in the belief that they are serving a justifiable cause
- Milgrams: participants were told they were doing so as science wanted to help improve memory
- People are willing to surrender their freedom of action in the belief that they are serving a justifiable cause
- Gradual commitment
- Evaluation
- Milgram believed that the agentic shift was at work throughout his experiment
- Holocaust carried out over a period of many years whereas experiment was half an hour therefore comparison not appropriate
- Gradual commitment supports Milgram
- Found in the real world: key element of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison
- Consequences of an obedience alibi
- Milgram claims that we were just following orders, Mandel suggests that obedience alibi has -ve effects
- It exonerates war criminals of their crimes and is distressing for those affected by holocaust
- Milgram believed that the agentic shift was at work throughout his experiment
- Milgram 1963
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