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Advantages
- Support of agentic state by Milgram who proposed people shifted back and forth between autonomous and agentic state. Demonstrated when experimenter in his study kept saying any harm to the learner was their responsibility resulting in more participants giving higher shocks - however some changes in people seem irreversible such as the case with Aushwitz doctors changing from concern about welfare of patients to carrying out vile and potentially lethal experiments on prisoners (idea, continuous acts of hard changes way people think, desensitisation)
- real -life legitimacy of authority justifies harming others as people authorise another person as capable of making their judgements for them so their own judgements don't matter hence they will carry out harmful acts on another person's say so, for example My Lai village where 500 unarmed elderly, women and children were killed on a commander's instructions
- Obedience in cockpit study - studied blackbox recordings of plane accidents where crew actions were a contributing factor in the crash and found excessive dependence on the captain's authority, some officers noticed that the captain was taking a risky plan and still went along with it assuming the captain knew what he was doing
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Disadvantages
- Zimbardo's idea that some people just have sadistic natures rather than agentic state
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