why do people obey
- Created by: dannyfaulkner99
- Created on: 03-05-18 14:51
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- why do people obey
- legitimate authority
- people obey authority figures whose role is defined by society because they are seen as legitimate
- Milgram, the prestige of Yale university and the technician in the lad coat made particpants more likely to obey
- gradual comitment
- once someone has complied with a small request its hard to refuse a similar but more extreme request
- foot-in-door effect
- in Milgram's study the voltage gradually raised so once the initial shock was done it was easy to move higher
- once someone has complied with a small request its hard to refuse a similar but more extreme request
- contractual obligation
- once someone has agreed to something they do not want to back out in fear of being labelled as a quitter
- in Milgram's experiment contractual obligation could have made the participants feel like that had to continue
- the agentic state
- autonomous
- behaving independently being aware of our actions and being fully responsible
- agentic
- acting as agents of others therefore not responsible passing blame by claiming to follow orders
- in Milgram's study participants trusted the experimenter so therefore went into an agentic state
- autonomous
- buffers
- people are more likely to obey if they are being protected from the reality
- in Milgram's study the proximity was 65% when they couldn't see the victim compared to 30% when they could
- legitimate authority
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