agentic state

• individuals believe they don’t have responsibility for their behaviour as they are the agent of an authority figure
• autonomous state - individuals‘ actions are free from control
• allows individuals to commit acts that they morally oppose - often feel discomfort but are unable to resist demands of the people in authority
• agentic shift - autonomous state to agentic state
• X stanford prison experiment - no authority figure told the guards to be so violent
• X can’t explain nazi soldiers behaviour - shot civilians when directly ordered not to, challenges agentic state