Agentic State AO1

• Agentic State

  A person 'unknowingly obeys an AUTHORITY FIGURE and feels no PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for their own behaviour
• Diffusion of responsibility


  Frees an individual from the demands of their conscience
• Autonomous State


  People act according to their own principles
• Agentic Shift


  Shift from autonomy to agency
• Binding Factors


  • Denial
  • Minimise or ignore the damaging effects of behaviour
  • Reduce moral strain (feeling that what they are doing is wrong)
• Binding Factors


  • Shifting responsibility to the victim - 'was foolish to volunteer'