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Why do people obey?
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A Levels Psychology (AS) Mind Map on Why do people obey?, created by Jessica Phillips on 05/14/2015.
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Why do people obey?
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Monocausal emphasis
Mandel (1998)
Suggests that by focusing on just obedience, Milgram ignored other more plausible explanations
Goldhagen (1996)
Identified anti-Semitism as the primary motivation for the actions of the Germans, not obedience
Agentic shift
Important aspect of Milgram's obedience explanation as applied to the Holocaust
Believed that the same psychological process was at work in both situations
Some differences suggest not
Amount of time
Holocaust perpetrators carried out duties for months
Milgram's experiment happened in a day
Perception of harm
Browning (1992)
38,000 Jews were executed over 4 years by the Reserve Police Battalion 101
Milgram's participants were told there would be no permanent tissue damage
The consequences of the obedience alibi
Mandel (1998)
Distressing for those effected
Exonerates war criminals of crime
Obedience as a key role in the Holocaust is not justified
Gradual commitment
Once committed to a course of action it becomes difficult for people to change their minds
Increased shocks gradually from low to high
Agentic shift
Agentic state
The condition a person is in when they see themselves as an agent for carrying out another persons wishes
Autonomous state
The state when a person sees himself acting on his own
Upon entering hierarchy of authority, switch to agentic state
No longer feel like they are acting on their own purposes
The role of buffers
Whether the teacher and the learner are in the same room
Being in different rooms acts as a buffer
Can't see the consequences of actions
If in the same room, the buffering effect is reduced
Justifying obedience
Offering an ideology
Good for science etc
End justifies the means
Shocks given were justified as they were told it would help improve memory
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