Outline and Evaluate one or more explanations of why people obey It has been found by Milgram that people obey for four main reasons these are; legitimate authority‚ the momentum of compliance‚ the agentic shift and passivity. The first reason that Milgram found that people obey is because people feel like they have to obey someone if they have a high social status or a highly respected job‚ this is called legitimate authority. Bickman (1974) supported this theory by doing an experiment on the
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Research supports Milgram’s evidence‚ that without deception he would have had incorrect results. Rosenhan (1966) copied the study and people had heard of Milgram’s experiment and Rosenhan’s results were 70% as participants thought it was true. Milgram in his defence again explained if the participants were to know the truth that the experiment was not real‚ the results would have been different and this would have affected the end result. The ethical concerns in the experiment were also argued
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have been justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in state of mind is called an agentic shift. For example in Milgram shock experiment (1963)‚ many participants reported
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Outline a key issue for obedience‚ discuss by using theories/studies from obedience for what happened in Abu Ghraib The Abu Ghraib prison is a notorious prison in Iraq‚ located in Abu Ghraib‚ near Baghdad. US soldiers were told to abuse and humiliate the prisoners by their leaders; this included chaining them up‚ treating them like dogs‚ and sometimes sexually harassing them. In April 2004 the abuses at Abu Ghraib were exposed with photos and videos showing US soldiers abusing naked Iraqis. On the
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References: Milgram‚ S. 1977‚ cited in Hollway‚ W. (2007) ‘Social Psychology: past and present’‚ in W. Hollway‚ H. Lucey and A. Pheonix (eds) Social Psychology Matters‚ Milton Keynes‚ Open University Press. Hollway‚ W (2007) ‘Social Psychology: past and present’‚ in
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The Art of Torture According to a 2006 survey conducted by BBC News‚ 58% of Americans say that any form of torture upon a fellow man for any reason is wrong (“One-third” 1)‚ which is ironic because horror films‚ such as Saw and Hostel‚ where victims are brutally murdered and ripped to shreds for the audience’s pure entertainment pleasure topped the box offices with their releases in 2004 and 2005. By looking at sociopolitical platforms and moral messages behind the ‘torture porn’ subgenre‚
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Obedience is when an individual responds to an order from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant
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The Milgram Experiment If people decided to just disobey and stop taking orders from authority figures‚ then imagine what kind of world we’d be in. If a cop were to turn his lights on you are gonna pull over because you know that is the right thing to do. Obedience is key for these type of issues. Just like when parents tell their children to do chores‚ they are gonna take that command and do what they are told. Why do we do that? That’s what we are trying to find out with the Milgram Experiment
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December 11‚ 2012 PSY 1012-Introduction to Psychology Professor Balkaran HOFLING HOSPITAL EXPERIMENT In 1966‚ the psychiatrist Charles K. Hofling conducted a two-part experiment that was inspired by Milgram’s research in obedience (Milgram‚ S.‚ 1963 & 1965). It consisted of a survey and field study on obedience in the nurse-physician relationship. Primarily‚ what happens when nurses are required to carry out a procedure which goes against her professional standards and secondly
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Running head: Evil Acts of Power Evil Acts of Power: An analysis of situational power John Doe Social Psychology 70705 Dr. Rafferti Abstract Human beings are capable of performing acts of wonder such as creating symphonies‚ running miles in minutes‚ and sailing around the world. Humans are also capable of performing atrocities such as creating weapons of mass destruction‚ committing murders‚ and torture. A simplistic view of evil is that some people are just “bad apples” and that their
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