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Obedience (Dispositional factors affecting obedience (Confidence levels,…
Obedience
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The agentic state
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The opposite of this is the autonomous state when an individual is free to act based on their own beliefs
Milgram's Agency Theory (1973) attempts to explain the behaviour demonstrated by his participants in his 'shock generator' studies claiming that people have the above two states of behaviour when in a social situation
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Dispositional Causes:
attributing behaviour to one's internal characteristics (beliefs, attitude, personality)
Situational Causes
attributing one's behaviour to external factors (social pressure, environment, school, people around you etc)
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Moral strain
Moral strain occurs when the agent realises that their behaviour is morally wrong but feel powerless to disobey the external authority's instruction.
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