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Obedience to Authority. A Levels Psychology Ms.Zarish Atif June 3 rd ,2011. Stanley Milgram’s (1974). Milgram experiment focuses on obedience to authority that how people behave under different situational and personal factors.
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Obedience to Authority A Levels Psychology Ms.Zarish Atif June 3rd,2011
Stanley Milgram’s (1974) • Milgram experiment focuses on obedience to authority that how people behave under different situational and personal factors. Milgram experiment was related to learning by electric shocks.
Experiment on obedience • Milgram students predicted that less than 3% of people would be giving electric shocks where as in reality almost 65% people have given full 450 volts shock.
Factors involved in obedience • Situational factors • Demand characteristic • Agentic state • Personal factors • High self-esteem • Need for social approval
Findings and attributions • Milgram is pessimistic in his findings • His findings have common grounds with Nazi Germany • Attribution error