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Social Influence
Obedience: Social-Psychological Factors
Psychological A01
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Adolf Eichmann
Charged with
Nazi death camps
, claimed he was under
orders
Milgram
Suggested people do not take responsibility in
agentic
state
Agent
Acts for/in place of another person, experiences
moral strain
Agentic
state
State where people feel no
responsibility
for their
actions
because they believe they're under a
authority figure
Autonomous
state
State where people are
free
to behave according to their own
principles
Agentic shift
Shift from
autonomous
to
agentic
state due to
perception
of
authority
Binding
factors
Ignoring
or
minimising
aspects of situation to reduce
moral strain
Legitimacy of Binding Factors
Societal
acceptance
of
authority
to maintain
social order
Legitimacy of authority
Acceptance of
authority
figures in
hierarchical
societies
Consequence of legitimacy of authority
Some people are granted the
power
to
punish
others
Destructive
power
Demonstrated in Milgram's study on
obedience
and real life examples:
Hitler
and
Stalin