key studies

• Adorno (1950)

  • created the F-scale personality test to measure the authoritarian personality
  • people who are highly obedient scored higher than those who were disobedient
• Milgram (1963)

  • if people obey unjust orders from an authority figure
  • under the right situational circumstances, ordinary people will obey unjust orders from a percieved authority figure
• Zimbardo (1973)

  • if people would conform to social roles of guard/prisoner in a mock study and if behaviour is due to internation dispositional factors or external situational factors
  • people conformed to social roles and situational factors wee largely responsible
• Asch (1951)

  • extent to which social pressures to conform from majority affects conformity
  • participants conformed due to NSI
• Jennes (1932)

  • weather individuals will change their estimates as a result of group discussion
  • results changed due to ISI as people believed group estimates to be correct