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How can social psychology explain the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner…
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Agency Theory- Milgram
-100% of Pp would administer shock of 300V to confederate as punishment for making mistake on word learning task
-65% of Pp continued to administer shocks to 450V
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When debriefing Pp, many reported that their behaviour was responsibility of experimenter- displacement of responsibility
Pp obeyed perceived authority figure- agentic state as they absolved themselves of personal responsibility
Autonomous state- few Pp did request to leave study and refused to continue, though Milgram's study didn't investigate why some did this
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