someone who acts voluntarily and are aware that their actions have consequences
agentic level
seeing themselves as agents of others and therefore wont be responsible for their actions
agentic state
when someone believes that someone else will taken responsibility for their own actions
agentic shift
when an autonomous individual switches to an agentic stage due to a legitimate source of authority and allow them to control their behaviour
Apply to milgrams study
the participants were reassured that any harm to student was experimenters fault no theirs - hence the participant going on with the experiment as being in anagentic state
legitimacy of authority
how credible the figure of authority is - people are more likely to obey
legitimacy of authority - comunicacted through visual symbols such as uniform also setting e.g police station and court
socialisation - people learn their position within the hierarchy
