Paper 1: Social Influence Flashcards
1
Q
What is the agentic state?
A
Become a ‘agent’ for a authority figure therefore they feel no responsibility for their actions
2
Q
What are the strengths of Agentic State?
A
It has research support from Blass and Schmidt (2001)
3
Q
What are the limitations of the Agentic State?
A
It can only account for some situations as the should feel some form of anxiety but in Hofling et al study of nurses
Cannot account for the behaviour of the nazis as sometimes they were not directly ordered to do things but still did them anyway
