Bochiaro- response to people in authority

Question 1

background

Answer 1

Milgram-people afraid to speak up about task given
whistleblowing- in schools to protect people and organisations

Question 2

Aim

Answer 2

investigate accuracy of peoples estimates of obedience, disobedience and whistleblowing
- investigate roles of dispositional factors

Question 3

Sample

Answer 3

149 participants
-96women
-53 men
volunteer sample-flyers posted in a university café
138 p’s surveyed about how they thought they’d respond

Question 4

method

Answer 4

Carried out 8 pilot studies involving 92 p’s
-ethical
-credible

Question 5

procedure

Answer 5

-students asked to volunteer
-told they’d be informed in a study but no informed consent
- paid 7 euros or course credit
-p’s told in last study all p’s panicked, some asked to stop. Aimed to carry out similar study but needed ethical approval
-Asked to write a statement to convince others to take part in an unethical study
-p’s left alone in a room for 7 minutes with computer, document to write statement and /or complete ethics form and whistleblowing
-obedience was measured weather they completed ethics form
-after 7 minutes, experimenter took them to another room to complete personality test
-p’s fully debriefed and gave consent to use their data
personality test- HEXACO
honesty, emotionally, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience

Question 6

results

Answer 6

survey
-3.6% believed they’d personally obey
65% believed they would whistle blow
study
76.5% obeyed
9.4% whistleblowing (6%) had obeyed
none of the personality traits were associated with a particular behaviour

Question 7

conclusions

Answer 7

people are obedient, whistleblowing is uncommon
people overestimate tendency to whistleblowing, under estimate tendency to be obedient
little to no evidence that dispositional factors affects obedience
tend to see ourselves as ‘special’
inaccuracy of estimates suggests scenario based research lacks validity