Obidience
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- Created on: 26-04-15 21:49
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- Obidience
- Milgram
- whether ordinary people will obey to authority, even when required to harm.
- 40 male volunteers at yale university
- Lacks population validity.
- The participant (teacher) confederate (learner) experimenter
- Ethical issues= deception, informed consent, protection
- required to administer electric shocks they thought were real
- Ethical issues= deception, informed consent, protection
- required to administer electric shocks they thought were real
- 100% went up to 300 volts and 65% went up to 450 volts.
- Ordinary people are astonishingly obedient to authority.
- Why people obey
- Gradual commitment: it becomes harder to resist to do larger tasks.
- Agentic shift: do it because they are not responsible for their actions.
- Role of buffers: not in the room, don't see consequences
- Justifying obidience
- Resisting pressures to obey.
- Status: when the experiment was moved out of Yale to a rundown office more people felt able to resist authority.
- Milgram
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