Milgram's Agency Theory

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• following obedience from an authority figure BLIND OBEDIENCE: when people are hurt/you hurt people in obeying.

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• mental condition independence and conscience suppressed acts as an agent on behalf of an authority figure and defers the responsibility

1. Moral strain

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   • consequences of doing something you know to be wrong and going against conscience eg. the fits and sweating from milgrams participants

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• Mental condition individual thinking and acting independently in accordance with own freen will with fully active conscience

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• Milgram (63) participants ordered to give electric shocks to a learner if they got the question worng. 65% went up to 450 v. IN AGENTIC STATE Meeus and raaijmakers agentic participants -- instead of physical violence was psychological - 15 increasingly distressing remarks hofling (66) nurses gave overdose when ordered to- authority figure- agentic state

1. Hofling
2. Milgram
3. meeus and raaijmakers

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• Nazis authority figure= hitler agentic= nazi soldiers (eichman)  autonomous= schindler Abu Ghraib agentic=soldiers authority figure=senior officer autonomous= joe darby.

1. Nazi
2. Abu Ghraib

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• social power theory (french and raven 59) different reasons= rewards, punishment avoidance and expert power weakens theory Idividual differences= why some obey and others don't= not explained

1. social power theory