Migram claimed that people shift back and forth between autonomous state and agentic state. However Lifton (1986) found that this failed to explain the gradual transition of German doctors during WWII, where they went from ordinary medical professionals to carrying out immoral and lethal experiments. Staub (1989) suggested that, rather than the agantic state, it was the experience of carrying out immoral acts over a long period of time that caused the change in the way people thought and acted. agenno state alone cannot explain how people come to commit extreme acts over time. This challenges the agent state explanation because it suggests that obedience is not just about a temporary psychological shot
but rather a long-term process of moral disengagement. This limitation weeks the agentic state explanation, as it fails to account for the gradual nature of how individuals come to commit atrocities, instead oversimplifying obedience
