Bocchiaro et al.'s experiment into obedience towards injust authority 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyCore studiesA2/A-levelOCR Created by: Gina_marjoramCreated on: 21-05-17 12:10 Aims Aims: To investigate the accuracy of people's estimates to obedience, disobedience and whistleblowing in this situation. To investigate the role of dispositional factors in obedience, disobedience and whistleblowing. 1 of 6 Method Pilot Studies: 8 Pilot studies were carried out. They involve 92 participants. The procedure was carried out to make sure it was credible and ethically acceptable. It was found that the procedure was both believable and ethical. 2 of 6 Method Participants: 149 participants took part in the study. They were all undergraduates from the UV uiversity in Amsterdam. It was a volunteer sample - they were recruited from flyers in the cafeteria. 138 students were surveyed bout what they believe they would do in the experimental situation. 3 of 6 Method Design and Proceure: The main study was carried out in lab conditions. Participnats were paid 7 euros and were iven course credits. They were met by a stern experimenter who told them they were carrying out research into sensory deprivation. Each participant was instructed to write a statement to convince other students to take part in the procedure. The participants were left alone to compose a statement. If a participant believed it was unethical they could complete a form and mailing it. Obedience/Disobedience was measured by whether they completed the form and whistleblowing was measured by whether they completed the form. After 7 minutes participants were given a set of dispositional measures: The Haxaco personality test The decomposed games measure of social values. Religiosity 4 of 6 Results Results: Only 3.6% believed they would obey. 64.5% believed they would whistleblow 31.9% believed they would whistleblow 18.8% estimatedto obey 43.9% estimated to disobey 37.3% estimated to whistleblow 76.5% obeyed 14.1% disobeyed 9.4% whistleblew 5 of 6 Conclusions Conclusions: People are very obedient and whistleblowing is uncommon People overestimate the tendency to blow the whistle and underestimate the tendency to obey There is little to no evidence to suggest that dispositional factors affect obedience 6 of 6
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