Situational Factors and Culture: Obedience

• How can the legitimacy be lowered to reduce obedience?


  Changing the mode of his or her dress; changing the prestige of the venue
• What are the situational factors that effect obedience?


  • Legitimacy
  • Proximity
  • Behaviour of others
• What statistic in one of Milgrim's variation supports Legitimacy effects obedience?

  65% -> 20%
• What statistic in one of Milgrim's variation supports Proximity effects obedience?

  65% -> 22.5%
• What statistic in one of Milgrim's variation supports the behaviour of others effects obedience?

  65% - 10%
• What do Individualist cultures value?


  Personal autonomy and self-reliancePersonal autonomy and self-reliance
• What do Collectivist cultures value?


  Loyalty and interdependence
• An example of an Individualist country?


  USA
• An example of a Collectivist country?


  China
• Who is more obedient: Individualism or Collectivism?


  Collectivism
• What is PDI (Power Distance Index)?


  How open a culture to a hierarchical order or inequalities
• What does it mean if a country has a high PDI?


  High obedience level
• What does it mean if a country has a high PDI?


  High obedience level