Social Influence -Obedience Milgrims Situational Variables Flashcards
Social ingluence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Proximity
40%when same room
30% when teacher force hands into place to revive shock
21% teacher n authority in diff rooms
Decreased prox allows psychological distance between them n consequences
When close proximity,teacher can experience the pain /anguish learner feels
So less likely experience agentic state.
Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Location
Decreased to 47.5% at run down office,
Prestigious uni =legitimacy and authority
Perceived experimenter shares same legitimacy n that obedience from them was expected
.when don’t have this = reduced confidence
Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Conclusion
People obey more when in prestige location, close to figure,wearing uniform - makes them more legitimate have higher status
Social ingluence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Uniform
Authority in ordinary clothes=20.5% obedience
Cus perceived society had given position n therefore entitled to demand respect off of pp
-add personal elaboration
Social influence milgrams factora affecting obedience
Research suport
Bickman
NYC
3 confed dressed in diff fits
Jacket tie ,milkman and security guard
2X likely to obey confed as security than jacket n tie
Social influence
Milgrams factors affecting obedience
Lowinternal valid
Contrived(false)
Participants may of been aware procedure was faked
Investigator effects
Eg when experimenter replaced by member of public
Social influence milgrams factors affecting obedience
Ignores dispositional factors
More to do with personality
Madel say alibi for bad behaviour
Implies names were victims of situational factors beyond control.could of been authoritarianism.
Middendorp low lev of education=obedience
Milgrams factors study intro
Extended baseline using those 65% who went to full 450 voltz
