PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fundamental Attribution Error, Milgram Experiment
9 Jan 2018
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If the voice is consistent and vocal, can be powerful. Behave in way when being requested by other people (e. g. doing favors for friends) When the request comes from a higher status person. Compliance to a demand from an authority figure. Possible reason for not obeying: moral imperative to stop suffering, fear of consequence, embarrassment/difficult to meet the person he harmed afterwards. Possible reason for obeying: sense of duty (participants in the study are paid), commitment to contribute (for science), trying to please the experimenter, avoid making a scene (embarrassment) Obedience decrease when the teacher is closer to the student (from remote feedback--touch proximity) Replace the authority with a third ordinary person, or bringing someone that say you should/shouldn"t continue, or having contradictory experimenters that tells him to stop. We tend to make fundamental attribution error, whereas in reality experiments all went though stress and tried to stop (indecisive disobedience) Release form responsibility (presence of a legitimate authority)
