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Title: Obedience


1
Obedience
  • Majority minority influence do not always
    involve a deliberate attempt to change someones
    behaviour
  • Obedience always involves a direct attempt by one
    person to control another

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Obedience
  • Complying with or deferring to a request or
    order from a legitimate authority

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Studies of Obedience
  • Milgram (1963)
  • A study of destructive obedience to authority
  • Involved giving people orders to hurt and
    possibly kill an innocent stranger

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Milgram Study video clip goes here
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Variations on Milgram
  • Female PPs 65
  • Victim screaming 62.5
  • Visible victim 40
  • Physical contact 30
  • Experimenter absent 22
  • Run down office 45
  • Disobedient confeds 10
  • Confed gives shocks 95

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Factors in Destructive Obedience
  • Several factors increase a persons tendency to
    obey an authority
  • Legitimacy of the authority
  • Social isolation
  • Buffers between aggressor victim
  • Gradual commitment

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Agency Theory (Milgram, 1963)
  • People have two ways of acting
  • Autonomous they direct their own behaviour, and
    take responsibility for the results
  • Agentic they allow someone else to direct their
    behaviour, and assume that responsibility passes
    to that person

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Responsibility video clip goes here
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Agency Theory
  • We act agentically when the situation or social
    role we are in seems to demand it
  • E.g. when given an order by someone wearing a
    uniform

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Resisting Obedience
  • Educate people
  • Students who knew about the Milgram research were
    less likely to obey in a similar study (Gross,
    1992)
  • Remind people of their responsibilities
  • When Milgrams PPs were reminded that they were
    responsible, almost none obeyed

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Resisting Obedience
  • Give social support
  • In the disobedient confeds version, obedience
    was much lower
  • Attack the authoritys credibility
  • Obedience relies on perceived legitimacy

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