Evaluation of Agency Theory

Question 1

What is the supporting evidence for people experiencing moral strain when they are given destructive orders

Answer 1

Milgram
- Participants seemed to have experienced extreme distress such as swearing and also having seizures

Question 2

What is the supporting evidence for an agenic shift occurring from the autonomous state to the agent state when people experience experience moral strain?

Answer 2

Milgram
- he tested two groups where one group was told that they had full responsibility over their actions and the other group were told that the experiment will take full responsibility
-The group that were told the experimenter had full responsibility had higher levels of obedience

Question 3

what is limiting evidence against the agency theory

Answer 3

• ignores the individual variables that affect obedience