Rundown Office Block (Experiment 10)

Question 1

What is a way to remember this?

Answer 1

• Office Block like 10 Downing Street

Question 2

What was the aim of the study?

Answer 2

• How far the actual environment affected the levels of obedience shown by participants

Question 3

What was the procedure?

Answer 3

• Moved from Yale Universuty to a rundown Office Block in Bridge Port
• 3 Different rooms used to clean, but no furniture
• Run by an independent research firm

Question 4

What were the results?

Answer 4

• 47.5% obeyed (19/40)

Question 5

What were the conclusions?

Answer 5

• Led to lower levels of obedience than baseline
• Setting has east effect.
• Reduction from 65%
• Original may have been caused by the questioning or legitimacy of authority figure