Cross-cultural Studies of Obedience Flashcards
Shanab and Yahya (Jordan) asked…
… children to give shocks to other children.
What was the conclusion of Shanab and Yahya’s study?
Children are obedient.
Kilham and Mann (Australia) asked…
… students to order pain to be administered, and to administer pain themselves.
What did Kilham and Mann find?
There was a higher level of obedience when ordering pain than when administering it.
Schurz (Austria) asked participants to…
… give bursts of ultrasound (rather than shocks) to a learner.
What did Schurz find?
80% obedience.
What did Mantell & Panzarella (Germany) find?
85% obedience
Mantell & Panzarella used a control group, and concluded that…
… if participants could choose the level of shock to give, none obeyed until the end.
Obedience level in the US?
61%
- (Thomas Blass’s reviews)
Obedience level in countries other than the US?
66%
- (Thomas Blass’s reviews)
Average figures of obedience levels worldwide are…
… very similar.
Obedience levels across cultures are also similar to the results of…
… Milgram’s basic study.
Even if obedience had been different between cultures, other…
… factors (e.g. age, gender, procedure differences) may have caused these differences
What does a similarity of findings in different cultures show?
That people have a powerful tendency to obey authority.
If a conclusion is to be drawn about the effects of cultures, then studies need to…
… have the same procedure and controls.
