Factors Affecting Obedience: Individual Factors

Question 1

Experience

Answer 1

Past experience may influence obedience levels - one of the participants in Milgrams study was an engineer and stopped at 220V because he was aware what the shocks did.

Question 2

Gender

Answer 2

Women are more likely to be obedient than men as they are generally less hard-headed and want to keep the peace.
When women were used in milgrams experiment the results were identical (65% obeyed)

Sheridan and King conducted a similar study to milgram with a dog as the one getting shocked for real and women obeyed significantly more at 13/13 compared to the men at 7/13.