Factors affecting obedience and dissent: Individual differences Flashcards
What is dissent?
Having opinions that differ from those held by others. In relation to obedience it means refusing to carry out orders (disobedience).
What is resistance?
The ability of people to withstand the social pressure to conform to the majority or to obey authority. This ability to withstand social pressue is influences by both situational and dispositional (personality) factors.
What is personality?
An individual’s characteristic, coherent and relatively stable set of behaviours, attitudes, interests and capabilities. These characteristics are useful for predicting future behaviour
What is gender?
A person’s sense of their maleness and femaleness including attitudes and behaviour of that gender
What is authoritarian personality?
You are more likely to show resistance and defy what they perceive to be destructive orders
Where does Adorno beleive an authoritarian personality comes from?
Harsh style of parenting
How do you measure if you have an authoritarian personality?
F-scale
What does it mean when people have a strong internal locus of control?
They take greater responibility for their actions as they believe they are in control of what they do and what happens to them.
What does it mean when people have a strong external locus of control?
They take less responsibility for their actions and feel that what happens to them is governed by other people and by chance factors
What did Frederick Miller demonstrate in interal and external LOC?
Externals obeyed the high status experiment more than the low status experiment, while internals were unaffected by status
What study demonstrates that women are more obedient than men?
Sheridan and Kings
Ppts were ordered to give shocks to a live puppy.
100% of females were obedient
54% of males were obedient
However women showed more distress
What study demonstrates that men are more obedient than women?
Kilham and Mann replicated Milgram’s study in Australia and found an unusually low obedience rate of just 28%.
In terms of gender 40% of males were fully obedient whereas this was true of just 16% of the females.
