Situational variables affecting obedience
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- Created on: 10-09-17 10:17
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- Situational variables affecting obedience
- Milgram (1963)
- Shocks ranging from 15-450V in 15V incriments
- 40 participants
- Experimenter prods
- 26/40 went to maximum shock level
- All went to 300V
- Teacher and learner
- Learner silent until 300V when he pounded on the wall then stopped answering
- Variables
- Location
- Run down office in Bridgeport - 48%
- Proximity
- Touch proximity - 30%
- Same room - 40%
- Experimenter absent - 21%
- Uniform
- Money for a parking meter
- Bushman (1988)
- Police outfit - 72%
- Beggar - 52%
- Business woman - 48%
- Location
- Evaluation
- Individual differences
- Tension higher but obedience the same
- Suggests that women are more susceptible to social influence Eagly (1978)
- Blass (1999) studied 9 replicas - 8/9 no differences
- Internal validiity
- Orne and Holland (1968)
- Perry (2012) found many were sceptical
- Doubters and believers - believers did lower level shocks
- External validity
- Mandel (1998)
- Reserve Battalion 101 ordered to mass kill the Jews
- Wilhelm Trapp offered for anyone who didn't feel up to it didn't have to
- Most carried out orders despite close proximity and defiant peers
- Ethics
- Baumrind (1964)
- Deception, no informed consent, no right to withdraw
- Historical validity
- Blass (1999)
- Statistical anaylsis between 1961-1985
- Findings apply as much today
- Individual differences
- Milgram (1963)
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