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obedience- when an individual follows direct orders from a person of…

- - - - run down office block- 47.5%
    - - touch proximity variation- 30%
      - on the telephone- 20.5% and fake shocks
      - experimenter and teacher close- 40%
    - - lab coat scientist replaced with civilian- 20%
- - - - doesnt explain all findigns of obedience. in rank and Jacobsons study 16/18 nurses stayed autonomous but gave the excessive dose told by an authoirtiy figure and a minority of ppts in milgrams study reamined autonomous, showing that the agentic state doesnt always explain obedience
- - - - adorno study (F scale)studied 2000 middle class white americans on thei r unconscious views about other racial groups
        people who scored high idetnified with strong people and against weak
        conscious of status extreme respect to higher status
        people with ap had a cogbitive style where there was no fuzziness betwen categories of people and they have stereotypes
        
        greenstein said there was methodological error s in the f scale. As to gett an authoritarian personality all they would habve to do is press yes. So anyone with a response bias could be identified as authoritarian personality when theyre not
        
        cant explain all the majority of germany in pre war as they had different personalities and it was very low chance that they would all have an authoritarian personality. This suggest a social identitiyy theory would be more valid to explain as they identified with antisemetic nazis and scapeg=aoted the jews than the authoritarian personality
        
        milgram and elms support authoritrian [erspnality. did the F scale on two obedient and two disobedient people and foudn the disobedient people were lower o nthe f scale which shows presence of authoritiation personality affects obedience
        
        the f scale is politically biased as it only measures the tendency towards an extreme form of right wing ideology. Christie and Jahoda argue the f scale is politically biased interpretation and point out the reality of left wing authoritarianism and ideologies are similiar by both emphasisng the importance of obedience. Adornos theoriyy is therefore not a comprehensive dispositional explanation that accounts for obedience acriss a whole political spectrum.