Study in detail: Meeus and Raaijmaker 1986
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- SECOND STUDY IN DETAIL - MEEUS AND RAAIJMAKER
- INFO
- COUNTRY - Holland
- DATE - 1986
- NON-USA STUDY OF OBEDIENCE
- AIMS
- To investigate problems which undermine Milgram's conclusions regarding obedience
- His study was an ambiguous situation as participants were given mixed messages (deceit about danger of shock)
- This may have been the factor leading to greater obedience; not being in the agentic state
- He used "old-fashioned" violence on the 'victim'
- His study was an ambiguous situation as participants were given mixed messages (deceit about danger of shock)
- To see whether participants will obey orders, act in the agentic state to give psychological harm to another individual
- To test the claim that high obedience is universal - a consistent and cross-cultural phenomenon
- To investigate problems which undermine Milgram's conclusions regarding obedience
- SAMPLE AND SET UP
- Volunteer sample
- 39 males and females age 18-35 that responded to a newspaper advert offering to pay for participants
- Modern university
- Volunteer sample
- PROCEDURE
- Subjects led to believe they were they were taking part in a study into stress and performance
- 1) Actor given job to impersonate a person taking a test for a job application answering multi-choice questions on a computer
- 2) Participant was ordered to read out insults from a computer whilst they completed the test
- Insults started mild and gradually became more harsh
- 3) Participant heard experimenter tell the job applicant "Poor performance on test will affect your job prospects"
- 2) Participant was ordered to read out insults from a computer whilst they completed the test
- 4) Participants were given feedback on how tense the applicants were getting throughout
- 5) Two thirds of the way through the applicant (actor) accused researchers of giving false feedback and withdrew their consent to continue
- If subjects refused to continue making stressful remarks they were prodded to continue by experimenter
- RESULTS
- 92% of subjects obeyed experimenterorders and made all stressful remarks
- Reported that they "intensely disliked" making stress remarks
- 96% of subjects fully believed they were dealing with a "real situation"
- CONC.
- The level of obedience demonstrated by participants was higher than Milgram's 1963 study
- It is easier to obey orders to use psychological-administrative violence rather than to obey orders to use physical violence
- 92% of subjects obeyed experimenterorders and made all stressful remarks
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