Bocchiaro Experiment Flashcards
How many participants obeyed
76.5%
Another piece of quantitative data from the experiment
the ‘comparison’ group thought they were most likely to blow the whistle - 64.5% compared with 31.9% who though they would just disobey
What are the conclusions from the experiment
What people they will do is quite different from what they actually do. This belief that they are ‘better than the average’ may make them blind to social pressures adn thus vulnerable to them
Situational rather than dispositional factors may offer a better explanation for disobedience
How many men and women were in the experiment
96 women and 53 men
How many people disobeyed in the experiment
14.1%
How many people ‘blew the whistle’
9.4%
What was the ethical issue in this experiment
Deception
Particapnts
149 undergraduate students from VU univiesty in amsertadman.
96 females and 53 males
- Flyers around the uni
- All ppts were paid euros or given course credit
How does it stick to ethics
ppts told what the study was oab
-Told they could withdrawl
- Info was confindetinal
What were the 2 tasks ppts were told to do in the second room.
HEXACO PIR
and
decomposed games measure
What were the conclusions from the study
Situational rather than dispotiaonl factors may offer a better explantion for disobdeince.
students overestimated the tendency to whistle-blow and underestimate likelihood of obedience
aim
To investigate the rates of obedience, disobedience and whistle-blowing in a situation where no physical violence was involved
- investigate accuracy of people’s estimates of obedience, disobedience and whistle-blowing
- investigate role of dispositional factors in obedience, disobedience and whistle-blowing
Participants
149 undergraduate students
- 96 females, 53 males
- recruited flyers around Uni of Amsterdam
- all p’s were paid euros or given course credit for taking part in study
- 92 p’s took part in pilot study
- 11 p’s removed because of the suspiciousness
