Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Meuss &
Raaijmakers
Description
- To see whether more modern
psychological-administrative violence
creates more or less obedience as
compared to Milgram's method
- The research took place in a
university building where participants
were led to believe they were taking
part in a study into stress &
performance
- Participants believed that the
Psychology department had
been commissioned to select
candidates for a job
- and each candidate
(confederates) was to take a
test which would be
administered by the
participants
- Participants were asked to make
15 increasingly distressing
remarks to the applicants
regarding how they were getting
on with the test
- "If you continue
responding like this
you're going to fail the
test
- If the subjects refused to
continue to make the
stressful remarks they
were prodded to continue
by the experimenter
- 92% of the participants obeyed
the experimenter to the end and
made all the stress remarks
- 73% of the participants
were sure that they were
dealing with a 'real'
situation
- The researchers conclude
that the level of obedience
in their study was
considerably higher than in
Milgram's study
- This shows that it is easier to obey
orders to use
psychological-administrative violence
than to obey orders to use physical
violence