Situational explainations

• Agentic state


  Where you feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour
• Autonomous State


  Behaving according to your own principles and feeling moral responsibility
• Binding Factors


  Factors that allow the person to ignore or minimise the damaging effects of their actions
• What factors need to be in place to cause an agent shift

  Higher in the social hierarchy

  Greater power
• Legitimacy of authority


  More likely to obey people with perceived authority over us
• What can occur when legitimacy of authority becomes destructive?

  Destructive authority
• Strengths of Situational explanations (Agentic State)

  Research support - Milgram - Agent state
• Limitation of Situational explanations (Agentic State)

  Limited explanation - doesn't explain research findings about obedience
• Strengths of Situational explanations (Legitimacy of Authority)

  Explains cultural differences in authority
• Limitations of Situational explanations (Agentic State)

  Doesn't explain the disobedience
• What are the situational explanations

  Agents state

  Legitimacy of Authority