Social inflluence
- Created by: Lizz Griffin
- Created on: 27-04-13 12:41
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- Social Influence
- Milgram (1951)
- Predictions and Findings
- He predicted that nearly all would refuse. Only a few would go to 150V. 4% to 300V and 1/1000 to 450V
- Found that 100% went to 300V. 65% to 450V
- Situational perspective: this is where you can explain obedience in terms of situational pressure
- Milgrams variations
- Proximity: L and T in different room: 62.5%. L and T in same room: 40% T forces L hand down: 30%
- Proximity of authority: out of office: 48% over the phone 20%
- Presence of allies: when with 2 other Ts, when they stopped the Pps also stopped.
- Increasing teachers discretion: level up to them stayed at low V.
- External validity
- Field setting: Bickman (1974) 'Give bus money' Uniform 92% No uniform 49%
- Cross cultural: 90% Europe (Netherlands and Spain). Lowest in Australia 16%
- Temporal: Burger (2007) did replication and found almost identical results
- Predictions and Findings
- Why do people obey?
- Situational Factors
- Legitimate Authority
- In hierarchical society people have authority and we trust them.
- Proximity of authority: out of office: 48% over the phone 20%
- Graduated commitment
- People said that they wouldn't have gone it at 180V straight away. Was only because of the small increments
- Responsibility
- People said they felt like an agent of the researcher. However signs of stress on video not indictive of agentic state.
- Buffers
- These protected the Pps from seeing the implications of their actions.
- Proximity: L and T in different room: 62.5%. L and T in same room: 40% T forces L hand down: 30%
- Legitimate Authority
- Personality Factors
- Authoritarian : respect people who have authority and look down on those below them
- Locus of control
- Elms and Milgram (1974) founds that the participants who disobey had high scores of social responsibly and internal LOC
- Situational Factors
- Milgram (1951)
- External validity
- Field setting: Bickman (1974) 'Give bus money' Uniform 92% No uniform 49%
- Cross cultural: 90% Europe (Netherlands and Spain). Lowest in Australia 16%
- Temporal: Burger (2007) did replication and found almost identical results
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