Obedience

Question 1

Situational variables evaluation

Answer 1

There is research support from big man who investigated the role of uniform by asking someone and milk made outfit a guard outfit a normal jacket and tie to ask random people to pick up litter people wearing the guard uniform had a two times more obedience rate than those who are wearing the jacket and tie there for supporting the influence of uniform
I have also been cross-cultural replications news replicated the procedure for Dutch participants in a more realistic way by asking them to are stressful questions to a Confederate who is desperate for a job 90% obeyed
When the experimenter asking them to give these stressful questions I was not present obedience rates dropped because of the influence of proximity

Question 2

Situational explanations - agentic state vs autonomous state

Answer 2

The agentic state is when a person believes they are being an agent for someone else acting for them and taking no responsibility for own actions
Autonomous state is a state if independence and total self responsibility
The agentic shift is when a person switches from being autonomy to being an agent due to viewing someone else as more authoritarian as they are higher on the social hierarchy

Question 3

Binding factors

Answer 3

Milgram wanted ti find out why people remain in agentic state when they are doing damaging things
He discovered people fixate on the things that make the negative look minimal ti avoid responsibility such as they were foolish ti volunteer