A mental state where you feel no personal responsibility for behaviour because you're acting on behalf of an authority figure. Frees us from conscience and allows us to obey a destructive authority figure
What is the autonomous state?
Opposite of agentic state/ person is free to behave on their ownprinciples so feels a sense of responsibility for their own actions
What is the agentic shift?
Autonomy to 'agency'
Milgram = occurs when person sees another as a figure of authority (greater power=position in social hierarchy)
What are binding factors?
Aspects of the situation which allow a person to ignore/minimise damaging effect of their behaviour (shifting responsibility to victim/denying the damage)
What is the legitimacy of authority?
Authority figures are allowed to exercise social power over others (agreed by society)
Some granted power to punish powers=we give up our independence and hand control to authority figures we trust to use their power appropriately
What is destructive authority?
Authority figures who use their legitimatepowers for destructivepurposes (ordering people to behavedangerous/cruel)
Example: Milgram’s study: the Experimenter using Prods to orderparticipants to behave in ways against their consciousness.
