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Bocchiaro - Coggle Diagram
Bocchiaro
Evaluation
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Ethics
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Unethical
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Students may have felt stressed putting their peers in a harmful scneario or felt guilty if they were obedient
Validity
Construct
People may have not actually apposed to the sensory deprivation study. E.g they may have suggested names of people they didn’t like to take part
Ecological
Bocchiaro said the situation students were put in was realistic (suggesting other pupils for another study).
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Reliability
Internal
The procedure was standardised (time given to write the statement, fake cover story given etc) so could be easily replicated again
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Individual-situational
Situational
The presence of a perceived legitimate authority figure (the experimenter in a lab coat) made them obey
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Sample
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Flyers were circulated in the cafeteria of the VU University in Amsterdam offering course credit or 7 euros for participation.
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Background
Milgram’s study has told us a lot about the mechanisms of obedience.
However, we don’t have much understanding about disobedience to unjust authority There has also been little research into the phenomenon known as ‘whistleblowing’
Whistleblowing = A whistleblower is a person, often an employee, who reveals information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent.
Procedure part 1
The participants were met by a male Dutch researcher who was formally dressed with a stern demeanor.
They were told a fake cover story about what the study was actually about and asked to give the names of a few other students who could take part in the study.
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Procedure part 2
The participants were then told they need to write a positive statement using words like ‘superb’ and ‘exciting’ to convince the students they named earlier to take part in the sensory deprivation study. This could include extra work and money for them if they do so.
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Procedure part 3
The participants were then taken to a room with a computer to write their statement. The room also included forms for the ethics committee which participants could use to report the study for ethical breaches by completing and placing in a mailbox.
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Comparison group
Bocchiaro also asked 138 participants to imagine they were in the scenario and report what they think they would do so he could compare the results.
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Personality measures
Bocchiaro wanted to see if there were personality characteristics which explained why someone is a whistleblower and so asked participants to complete 2 personality inventories
HEXAXO
Measures the six major dimensions of personality (Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to experience)
Social Value Orientation
Measures preferences for patterns of outcomes for oneself and others (Prosocial orientation, Individualistic orientation, or Competitive orientation)
The personality inventories revealed no new information about the personality of obedient people, but did reveal that whistleblowers tended to have more faith.
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Aims
This study aimed to see what people would do if they were confronted with the choice of obeying, disobeying or whistleblowing in a situation when faced with an unjust authority figure who was engaging in unethical behaviour.