Situational Variables On Obedience AO1

• Proximity - when the learner was brought into the same room as the teacher (participant)


  Obedience DECREASED to 40%
• Proximity - when the teacher had to physically put their hand onto a shock plate


  Obedience DECREASED to 30%
• Being closer to the consequences decreases obedience
• When the experimenter (authority) left the room and gave instructions via the telephone

  Obedience reduced to 20.5%
• Being closer to the person giving orders increases obedience
• Location - when the setting was changed from Yale University to a run-down office block (in Bridgeport)


  Obedience reduced to 47.5%
• People are more obedient in settings that give the experimenter legitimacy of authority
• Uniform - initially the experimenter wore a grey lab coat

  Obedience was high (65%)
• Uniform - when the experimenter was replaced by a member of the public not wearing a lab coat


  Obedience decreased to 20%
• Bickman - People were twice as likely to obey a man dressed as a guard than a man dressed in a suit