Social Psychology - Bocchiaro et al

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What is a whistleblower?
a person who informs on someone who is engaging in immoral or illegal behaviour
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What were Bocchiaro's aims?
To find out if there was a whistleblowing personality. To investigate obedience and whistleblowing against an authority figure
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What was Bocchiaro's research method?
Laboratory study (as there was no IV)
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Where did the study take place
VU Amsterdam
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Which controls were used?
The same rooms were used for each participant, the timings were kept the same for each participant
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How many students were in the pilot study
138
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Which questions were asked in the pilot study?
What would you do? What would the average student at your university do?
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How were the personalities determined?
Scores on HEXACO-PI-R and Decomposed games measure
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How could the participants whistleblow?
By reporting the study to the research ethics committee (form in box)
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Describe the sample in Bocchiaro's study
149 undergraduate students (96 women, 53 men, mean age 20.8)
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What did the participants gain in return for their participation?
7 euros or course credit
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Describe the first part of the procedure in Bocchiaro's study
Greeted by a stern, formally dressed, Dutch, male experimenter. They were asked to suggest some names of fellow students. They were told a cover story. Experimenter left the room for 3 minutes.
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Describe the second part of the procedure in Bocchiaro's study
Participants moved to a second room where they had to write a statement. Experimenter told them to begin and left the room for 7 minutes.
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What was in the second room?
A computer to write the statement and a mailbox for research committee forms (Whistleblowing)
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What did the participants have to include in their statements?
2 adjectives from: "exciting", "incredible", "great", and "suberb". Negative effects were not to be mentioned
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Describe the third part of the procedure in Bocchiaro's study
After writing the statement they were moved back to the 1st room and administered the personality inventory tests.
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How long did the whole study last?
about 40 minutes
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What was ethical about bocchiaro's study?
Debriefed and second consent afterwards
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How many people of the pilot study thought they would obey, disobey, whistleblow?
Obey: 3.6%, Disobey: 31.9%, Whistleblow: 64.5%
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How many people of the pilot study thought others would obey, disobey, whistleblow?
Obey: 18.8%, Disobey: 43.9%, Whistleblow: 37.3%
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How many people in the experimental group obeyed, disobeyed, and blew the whistle
Obey: 76.5%, Disobey: 14.1%, Whistleblow: 9.4%
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Was a whistleblowing personality found
no
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Name 2 conclusions from Bocchiaro's study
People tend to obey authority figures even if the authority is unjust. Individuals behave in completely different ways than expected when they find themselves in certain circumstances that are unfamiliar.
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Why does Bocchiaro's study fall within the the social area?
It's confirming the influence that other people can have on our behaviour. (Leading people to be much more obedient than they would probably predict themselves to be)
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