Obedience to Authority
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- Created on: 20-01-13 14:58
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- Obedience to Authority
- Obedience to unjust commands
- Milgram (1974) variations
- remote feedback - 66% obedience
- voice feedback - 62% obedience
- proximity - 40% obedience
- touch proximity - 30% obedience
- phone orders - 20.5% obedience
- office setting - 48% obedience
- ordinary man giving orders - 20% obedience
- confederate refuses - 10% obedience
- Milgram (1974) variations
- Validity of obedience research
- Internal validity
- Orne and Holland (1968) claimed Millgram experiment lacked experimental realism
- Rosenhan (1969) replication
- Demand characteristics of being in experiment rather than real-life
- Participants were paid
- measure of the extent to which the experimental design actually did the job it set out to do
- External validity
- lacked mundane realism
- extent to which the results of a study can be applied to other situations and people
- Internal validity
- Why do people obey?
- Erikson - human nature
- Situational explanations
- legitimate authority
- gradual commitment
- buffers
- agentic versus autonomous state
- Dispositional/ personality explanations
- Authoritian personality
- general hostility towards other groups
- submissive attitudes towards authority figures
- rigid beliefs in convectional values
- intolerance of ambiguity
- Adorno et al (1950)
- Fascism Scale
- Authoritian personality
- Resisting obedience
- educate people about "blind obedience"
- remind people that they should take responsibility of their own actions
- provide more role models who refuse toe obey
- question the motives of authority when they issue unreasonable orders
- Milgram and Asch show it is easier to resist when a confederate resists
- Individual differences
- Crowne and Marlowe (1964)
- Stang (1972)
- Kilham and Mann (1974)
- Eagley and Carli (1981)
- Burger and Cooper (1979)
- high level of moral development
- want to maintain control
- confident
- need to maintain individuality
- high self esteem
- low need for social approval
- Obedience to unjust commands
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