Exp for obedience

• Agentic state

  when someone obeying an authority figure acting as an agent. Eg: participants in Milgram‘s study getting electric shocks from teachers
• Legitimacy of authority

  People will obey someone they perceive to be ’above‘ them in the social hierarchy, and therefore think they have the right to give orders.
• Situational variables

  Proximity, location and uniform
• Authoritarian personality

  A person who has extreme respect for authority and is more likely to be obedient to those who hold power of them