Burger et al 2009

Created by: Daria Alexandra
Created on: 26-04-21 11:58

Aim

Were Milgram's findings era-bound?
What are the differences between gender in obedience?
Does empathic concern and desire for personal control increase obedience?

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Procedure

- Milgram-Like experiment
- 70 ppts : 55% white Caucasians, 5% Black Africans; volunteer sampling
- informed consent, 3 notices of right to withdraw, debriefed immediately, clinical psychologist to supervise and stop exp in case of distress
- stopped at

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Results

- 70% ppts obeyed
- no differences between gender obedience
- empathic concern : similar between obedient & non-obedient
- desire for personal control : higher in non-obedient ppts

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Conclusions

- empathic concern : not an explanation
- desire for personal control : increase defiance
- findings not era-bound
- no gender differences in obedience

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Strengths

- reliability : good, standardised & well-controlled procedures (lab exp, 2 step screening process)
- good ethics

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Weaknesses

- low eco validity
- low generalisability : volunteer sampling

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