Personality and Gender: Obedience (Evaluation)

• What supporting Evidence is for Alarno's theory on Authoritarian Personality effecting obedience?

  Milgram and Elms - They tested 20 disobedient and 20 obedient participants on the F-Scale. The obedient participants scored high, and reported having a tough relationship with their fathers. This shows obedience is tightly related to Authoritarianism
• What is a competing argument to an Authoritarian Personality effecting obedience?


  Hyman and Sheatsley - Other factors may be involved, such as lower level of education
• What evidence disproves personality effecting obedience?

  Schurz - Austrian participants were told to give painful doses of ultrasound to a female student. The scores from the obedient participants did not differ from the disobedient participants in terms of LOC
• How can LOC be applied to the real world?


  Employment - companies may be seeking obedient workers, so they can look those who scored highly on a scale assessed LOC
• What supporting evidence is there for Gilligan's theory on moral reasoning?


  Qualitative Research - Males and Females were interviewed on real-life dilemmas, and although they considered both the Ethic of Justice and Care; more males leaned towards an Ethic of Justice, whereas females leaned towards an Ethic of Care
• What evidence disproves Gender effects obedience?


  Blass - he summarised the findings of 9 milgrim style studies, of which only one showed a significant difference between genders