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Burger (Contemporary Study) - Coggle Diagram
Burger (Contemporary Study)
Aim:
To see if obedience levels have changed since Milgram's study 50 years previous
To find out if there are gender/personality differences in obedience?
To see if people use behaviour of there as a norm to base their reactions off
Would presence of disobedient figure influence obedience?
Sample:
70 ppts
Aged 20-81
29 male, 41 female
Responded to newspaper ads, volunteer sampling
$50 incentive
Had to go through a health evaluation first, 30% were rejected
Split into two groups, teachers and the learners
In Milgram's study, every participant that went above 150 v went all the way up tp 450v- Point of No Return
Procedure:
Experimenter administered a very mild 15 volt sample shock to participants so they could see that the generator was real
Ppts replied to ads in local newspaper and were spit into base or moral refusal condition
Base condition:
Confederate was told that is they answered a word pairing incorrectly they would be shocked
Had to press a button to indicate their answer
Debriefed immediately
Model Refusal
Two confederates were used, one the same as in the base condition, the other was the same gender as the real participant
Confederate showed no signs of hesitation until reaching 75 volts
At 90 volts, the confederate said they did not want to continue
Results:
Base Condition:
Stopped at 150 volts or earlier- 12, 30%
Would have gone over 150 volts- 28, 70%
Model Refusal Condition:
Stopped before 150 volts or earlier- 11, 36.7%
Would have gone over 150v- 19. 63.3%
Milgram's original
Stopped at 150 volts or earlier- 7, 17.5%
Went over 150v- 33, 82.5%
Conclusions:
There has not been much of a difference between then and the 1960s
Participants were no less obedient after seeing the confederate refuse, demonstrates power of situational factors
Failure to find gender differences may reflect the power of situational, to override individual differences
However, females were shown to be under more moral strain