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Explanations for obedience - Coggle Diagram
Explanations for obedience
Autonomous state: we act due to the threat of consequences and responsibility. We act as an independent individual, guided by our own conscience
Agentic state: we surrender our autonomy and act as agents for the authority figure. We can use this to alleviate moral strain by placing responsibilities on the authority figure
AO3:
Milgrams research shows evidence of the agentic state
Practical applications: Nazi Gemany
Doesn't account for dispositional factors
Authoritarianism
Personality disorder where the individual has the tendency to be rigid, dogmatic, absolute to beliefs, obedient, and submissive to authority.
'Might is Right'
Authoritarians feel that the different ideologies of out-group members can harm societies. Perceptions of threat lead to aggression against the out-group members
Upbringing
If a person is raised by dogmatic and distant parents who constantly punish for minor reasons and have rigid and absolute ideologies and values about society, an individual will learn from early childhood to obey the people who have more power and privileges than him, then they will continue this obedient attitude as an adult
Personality traits
Rigid beliefs in conventional values, general hostility towards other groups and racial in-group favouritism, intolerance of ambiguity, and respect for authority figures and a submissive attitude towards authority figures
AO3:
Elms and Milgram: The F-scale and Obedience follow up study
Difficult to objectively measure
Explains rate of obedience in Milgram's study
Practical applications - Nazi Germany