Meeus and Raaijmaker study

Question 1

What was the aim?

Answer 1

To test obedience requiring harm to be committed in a more up to date manner than milgram by using Psychological violence rather then physical

Question 2

What type of experiment was it ?

Answer 2

A lab experiment

Question 3

What was the sample?

Answer 3

39 Dutch male and females aged 18-55

Question 4

how many increasingly insulting remarks were there?

Answer 4

15

Question 5

How was the sample selected?

Answer 5

Volunteer , recruited by a newspaper advert asking for participants for a study on psychological stress.

Question 6

How much were the participants paid?

Answer 6

$13

Question 7

What were the two variation studies?

Answer 7

• One without the experimenter present to give prods

- One with 2 disobedient stooges

Question 8

What were the result of the main study?

Answer 8

• 92% were fully obedient

- Even though many showed signs of moral strain

Question 9

What were the results from the variation study without the experimenter?

Answer 9

36% were fully obedient

Question 10

What were the results from the variation study of the 2 disobedient stooges?

Answer 10

16% were fully obedient

Question 11

How many blamed the experimenter in the follow up questionnaire? (Agentic state)

Answer 11

45%

Question 12

How many blamed themselves? (Autonomous state)

Answer 12

33%

Question 13

What did Meeus and Raaijmaker conclude?

Answer 13

That high levels of obedience are to be expected even 20 years after the original Milgram study and that obedience in Holland is higher than the USA.
-They also noted that participants seemed more likely to deliver abuse if it was psychological harm rather than physical harm because the consequences are not as immediate