factors affecting obedience

• Proximity - how much more did participants obey when experimenter was in the room

  62.5%
• Proximity - how much was obedience was decreased when experimenter and participant was in different rooms?

  40%
• proximity - touch proximity (forcing students hands on plates) reduction of obedience

  30%
• Location

  participants obeyed more when experiment took place in a prestigous uni - compared to 46.5% obedience in a run down location - yale increases legitamacy of authority
• Uniform

  obeyed more when the experimenter was wearing a lab coat dropped to 20% when experimenter was plain clothed
• Bickman(1974) - participants

  153 randomly selected pedestrians in new york
• Bickmans - 3 types of uniform

  civilian clothing

  milk man

  guards uniform
• Bickman - orders given

  • pointing at bag on street "pick up this bag for me"
  • nodding in direction of concrete "this fellow is over parked at the metre, but doesn't have any change. Give him a dime"
• Bickman-results

  participants were most likely to obey researcher in uniform