Situational Variables Affecting Obedience
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- Situational Variables Affecting Obedience
- Milgram study (1963)
- 40 Ps who played the teachers who tested the learners + gave them shocks when Ps answered wrong
- The shocks started at 15V + went up by 15 until they got to 450V
- At 300V the learner would bang on the wall + go silent
- If the Ps wanted to stop they would be prompted
- 65% of Ps went to 450V + all Ps went to 300V + only 12.5% stopping then
- Evaluation
- Gender: Milgram had one all female condition which showed the same obedience rates
- External Validity: In Poland in 1942 Police Battalion 101 were told to kill Jews but only a minority were obedient
- Realism: The experimenter remained calm who showed some Ps that no real pain was being inflicted
- Historical Validity: Milgrams' study was done over 50 years ago but studies have not found any differences
- Ethics: Deception, Consent, Withdrawal, Protection
- Situational factors
- Proximity: Teacher + Learner in same room = obedience at 40%
- Teacher put Learners hand on shock plate = obedience at 30%
- Experimenter gave instructions over the phone = obedience at 21%
- Teacher put Learners hand on shock plate = obedience at 30%
- Location: In a run down office = obedience at 48%
- Uniform: Told PPL to give money to a man at a parking meter
- Police uniform = 72% obedient
- Business executive = 48% obedient
- Beggar = 52% obedient
- Business executive = 48% obedient
- Police uniform = 72% obedient
- Proximity: Teacher + Learner in same room = obedience at 40%
- Milgram study (1963)
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