situational factors affecting obedience MILGRIM

• situational factors in obedience 


  location - likely to over someone in location linked to higher status

  proximity - how close you are to authoritative figure - more likely to obey

  power of uniform - wears uniform as gives them higher status
• AO3 1 - lack of realism 


  orne and holland claimed ppt learned to distrust experimenter - know true purpose of the study may be disguised - act a certain way not authentic self - internal validity, mundane realism
• AO3 2 - historical validity 


  burger studies in 2009, 46 years later from milgrims study - levels of obedience almost identical to those found by milgrim - reliable
• AO3 (3) 2 - high level obedience not surprising 


  Fromm- ppt part of scientific experiments in lab setting - made them more likely to obey than in real life - means cannot draw broad generalisation from his study - majority believe people would commit crimes of obedience in real life away from lab settings