obedience

obedience

dispositional factors
1. individual differences in our personalities
2. Adorno devised an F scale
3. obedient people have authoritarian personalities
4. strict upbringing
5. displaced hostility felt towards parents to others
  1. expect people to obey them
  2. obey those in authority
keeping order in prisons
1. prison guards wear uniform
  1. gives them authority
    1. prisoners more likely to obey
    2. power to punish
  2. lose their identity
    1. easier to carry out orders
situational factors
1. social influence
2. electrocuted people for wrong answers
  1. 65% gave lethal 450 V shock
3. setting
  1. uni - run down offices
  2. 47.5%
4. culture
  1. individualistic - collectivist (Austria)
  2. 85%
5. lab coat - casual
  1. 20%
6. consenses
  1. add two disobeying actors
  2. 10%
7. criticisms
  1. no consideration to role of personality
  2. ethical problems
  3. lacks ecological validity
bickman
1. aim
  1. whether uniform which signifies authority will affect obedience
2. p
  1. field experiment
    1. new york
  2. opportunity sample of 153 people
  3. given instructions off three males
    1. guard
    2. milkman
    3. civilian
    4. pick up litter, give a coin to someone for parking meter, move to other side of bus stop
3. R
  1. 2-3 more times likely to obey guard that civilian
    1. 83%
    2. 57%
    3. 33%
4. C
  1. power of uniform. dress can suggest uniform. more likely to obey if they have authority to punish
5. criticisms
  1. lack of control over extraneous streel variables
  2. unethical
  3. gender bias

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