• Laboratory study + Scenario study (NOT A LAB EXPERIMENT, NO MANIPULATION OF I.V)
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I.V’s and Dv’s?
• No manipulation of I.V. • D.V’s: 1. Participant obeying 2. Disobeying 3. Whistleblowing 4. Score on personality inventories.
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Sample?
• 149 undergraduate students. • 96 females + 53 males • 11 removed due to their suspicions. - recruited through self-selected sampling
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Location?
VU University of Amsterdam
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Two personality tests?
• HEXACO-PI-R-60: measured major dimensions of personality. • Social Value Orientation (SVO): outcomes to class participants as pro-social, individualistic + competitive.
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Controls?
• Same experimenter used, spoken + dressed the same demonstrating authority • Same cover story used • Same two rooms • Same two personality tests
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Ethics?
• Participants correctly informed. • Participants told they could withdraw at any time. • Confidential • Consent forms
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original expected Quantitative results?
• Only 3.6% indicated would obey • 31.9% believed they would disobey • 64.5% believed that they would be whistle-blowers
People obey unjust authority + People behaviour differently to what they say they will +Disobedience, whistleblowing are psychologically, socially and economically demanding. + No relationship between personality characteristic
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
I.V’s and Dv’s?
Back
• No manipulation of I.V. • D.V’s: 1. Participant obeying 2. Disobeying 3. Whistleblowing 4. Score on personality inventories.
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