Agentic shift

• Agentic shift 


  Is acting as an agent on behalf of the authorty figure giving orders. Actions don't reflect individuals.

  Responsibility falls on the one giving orders.
• Autonomous state

  they are responsible for actions.

  choose their behavow and behaviour is a of actions date sand choices.
• Milgram found that participants were more likely to obey when they believed it was part of a scientific experiment
• Binding factor:

  made PP stay, E g. had signed and consented to take part and prods experimenter gave made them

  stay as well.
• Evaluation - agentic shift 


  -real life application: Milgram claimed people can shift back and forth between agenetic state and

  autonomous state. Lifton found

  German doctors changed gradually from ordinary doctors

  to people capable of doing lethal experiments.
• Evaluation - agentic shift

  -Agentic shift a plain cruel : Milgram believed agentic Shift explains findings. Critics detected

  signs of cruelty in some pp supports stadistic impulses. suggests in Zimbardos study

  as guards became fine with inflicting pain with no real

  authorty figure around.