situational variable affecting obedience

• what are the three situational variable affecting obedience?

  proximity, location, uniform.
• when location changed, how did levels of obedience change?

  Levels of obedience decreased by 48%. the experiment was repeated in a downtown office. obedience decreased because the uni Yale is prestigious so participants felt pressured to obey because of the location.
• in touch of proximity, how much did obedience levels decrease

  30%
• in proximity distance of victim, how much did obedience levels change?

  decreased by 40%
• touch proximity of victim decreased 30% because as the participants hand was pressed onto the shock-plate when they gave the wrong answer, there were visual cues of someone else's pain trigger on empathic response
• when proximity distance of victim caused obedience levels to decrease by 40%, this was because the learner was in the same room as the teacher being 18 inches away and this caused visual cues of someone else's pain trigger an empathic response.
• while experimenter's absent, the obedience levels decreased by 22%. instructions were given by telephone. People will take a stronger stand when they do not have to encounter an authority figure face to face. there is also less concern about retribution from the authority figure.