Milgram's Agency Theory

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Mind Map on Milgram's Agency Theory, created by M F on 08/04/2014.
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Milgram's Agency Theory
  1. Description
    1. Obedience

      Annotations:

      • following obedience from an authority figure BLIND OBEDIENCE: when people are hurt/you hurt people in obeying.
      1. Agentic state

        Annotations:

        • mental condition independence and conscience suppressed acts as an agent on behalf of an authority figure and defers the responsibility
        1. Moral strain

          Annotations:

          • consequences of doing something you know to be wrong and going against conscience eg. the fits and sweating from milgrams participants
        2. Autonomous

          Annotations:

          • Mental condition individual thinking and acting independently in accordance with own freen will with fully active conscience
        3. Evaluation
          1. For

            Annotations:

            • Milgram (63) participants ordered to give electric shocks to a learner if they got the question worng. 65% went up to 450 v. IN AGENTIC STATE Meeus and raaijmakers agentic participants -- instead of physical violence was psychological - 15 increasingly distressing remarks hofling (66) nurses gave overdose when ordered to- authority figure- agentic state
            1. Hofling
              1. Milgram
                1. meeus and raaijmakers
                2. Applicaction

                  Annotations:

                  • Nazis authority figure= hitler agentic= nazi soldiers (eichman)  autonomous= schindler Abu Ghraib agentic=soldiers authority figure=senior officer autonomous= joe darby.
                  1. Nazi
                    1. Abu Ghraib
                    2. Alternative

                      Annotations:

                      • social power theory (french and raven 59) different reasons= rewards, punishment avoidance and expert power weakens theory Idividual differences= why some obey and others don't= not explained
                      1. social power theory
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