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1 Ch 6: Conformity & Obedience Part 3: Feb. 25, 2015

2 Milgram’s Obedience Study Results? – What was predicted vs. what he found – – Follow-up studies focused on what? ‘Start w/any level of shock you want…’

3 Milgram & Obedience (cont.) – Impact of the situation: Summary of Milgram’s follow- up studies & obedience levels in chart… ‘Baseline’ refers to the original study (65% obedience to max) Note that gender had no effect…

4 – (summarizing the graph above…) – Impact of situation on obedience rates: 1.Location 2.Experimenter characteristics 3.Closeness to victim 4.Disobedient others

5 Are people less obedient today than when Milgram’s study was done? – ‘Strip search caller’ incidents:

6 Reasons for Obedience? 1. Conforming to the wrong norm 2. Cognitive Dissonance 3. Loss of personal responsibility

7 Ethics of Milgram’s Work Criticisms of the studies: What did Milgram argue about the benefits? Ethical guidelines followed

8 Burger’s (2009) replication – Burger’s experiment: partial replication using up to 150 volts (rather than 450 max) Similarity to Milgram? Differences from Milgram? Results?

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