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LEGITIMACY OF AUTHORITY - Coggle Diagram
LEGITIMACY OF AUTHORITY
definition
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eg. the police, teachers, parents
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strength
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Milgram = showed that obedience is much more likely if a person is perceived to be a figure of legitimate authority as participants followed orders given by a researcher wearing a lab coat a symbol of authority
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Bickman = confirmed people were more likely to follow orders given by a person with perceived authority
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further research support
For example Hofling (1966) found that 21 out of 22 nurses (90%) on a real life hospital ward would obey unjust demands (giving an unsafe dose of a drug to a patient) if they were told to do so by a figure of authority - a doctor
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real life application
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For example, it can explain the behaviour the soldiers in the My Lai massacre as they were following the orders of a legitimate figure of authority and were acting as an agent of the authority figure
theoretical application, helps explain different situations in real life