obedience

• situational variables

  • original study = 65%
  • proximity = 40%
  • touch proximity = 30%
  • reducing authority of experimenter = 20/20.5%
  • less credible location = 47.5%
  • refusal to obey
• obedience

  type of social influence where someone ects in response to order from authority
• Milgram 1963

  effect of electric shocks as punishment on learning
• procedure (milgram)

  • 40 male students
  • yale uni office room
  • learner and experimenter were confederates
  • teacher was pts who had to give electric shocks to learner by order of experimenter
  • experimeter gave prods ("you must keep going")
  • experimenter wore lab coat
  • learner wasnt actualy being shocked but pre recorded sounds of pain
• findings (milgram)

  • all pts went up to 300V
  • 65% went to highest voltage (450V)
  • pts showed tension, sweat, anxiety and 3 had seizures