Personal Responsibility

• Where personal responsibility is removed and placed with the authority figure obedience increases
• In another variation on Milgram’s original obedience experiment participants had to sign a contract that stated: They were taking part of their own free will and relinquishing any legal responsibility from Yale University - Obedience fell to 40%
• When people have to reflect more on what they are doing, possibly by reminding them of their responsibility for their actions; they become more self-aware and autonomous