obediance

• agentic state - someone else will take responsibility for their own actions
• legitimacy of authority - describes how credible the figure of authority is
• situational factors - unifrm - higher status - location
• milgram - electric shock experiement
• milgram crit-

  not believing that shocks were real

  deception

  harm
• milgram repeated the study and changed situational variables - uniform - location
• dispositional explanations for obediance - authoritarian personality
• situational factors which affect obediance -

  allies

  proximity of victim

  proxikmity of authority

  location of experiment
• agency theory explains obediance
• agency theory - when we are acting out the wishes of another person we feel less responsible for our actions
• autonomus state - taking responsibility for your own actions
• agentic shift is the move between autonomus and agentic state
• binding factors keep the participants in an agentic state
• binding factors -

  reluctance to disrupt the environment

  pressure of surroundings

  insistance of the authority figure
• support for agency theory - comes from milgrams own research and how the participants obeyed orders
• obediance can depend on legitimaacy of authority
• legitimate authority - people who are given the right to tell us what to do
• bickman - field experiment to see if passers by would listen to a person in uniform or not in uniform