AO3

• strengths

  • prompts from the experimenter were binding factors - increase likelihood of Ppts entering agentic state
  • Blass and Schmitt - showed a film of Milgram’s study to students and asked them to identify who they felt was responsible for the harm to the learner. The students blamed the experimenter -recognised the expert and authority
• Weaknesses

  • Rank and Jacobson - nurses should’ve gone into the agentic state but they remained autonomous
  • Rapid shift of states fails to explain the slow and inversible transition that Lifton found - studied German doctors of Auschwitz and found at first they were professionals concerned with wellbeing but turned into people who carried out vile and lethal experiments