AO1

• Agentic state

  • Milgram proposed that obedience to destructive authority occurs because a person becomes an agent - someone who carries out actions for someone else
  • They don’t feel responsible because they believe the authority figure is - frees us from the demands of our conscience
• Autonomous state

  • Where the individual is independent and behaves according to their own principles
• Agentic shift

  • When a person goes from an autonomic state to an agentic state
  • When we perceive someone else as an authority figure
• Binding factors

  • Play a role in the individual entering the Agentid state
  • They allow the person to ignore the damaging effect of their behaviour by justifying them
  • Shifting responsibility to the victim or denying the damage that they are doing to the victim