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what is the autonomous state
when a person is free to behave according to their own principles and feels responsibility for their own actions
what is the agentic state
when a person feels no responsibility for their actions as they’re acting for an authority figure
what is agentic shift
when in the presence of an authority figure, a person switches from the autonomous to agentic state
what are binding factors
aspects of a situation that allow a person to minimise the damaging effects of their behaviour and reduce their moral strain
what is legitimacy of authority
an explanation for obedience suggesting were more likely to obey people who we perceive to have legitimate authority over us
what is destructive authority
when legitimate authority figures use their power to harm others or be destructive
how does milgrams experiment support the role of the agentic state
most of the participants resisted giving the shocks at some point
when the experimenter said ‘im responsible’ they acted more easily as he experimenters agent
how does milgrams research NOT support the agentic state
Stephen Rank and Cardell Jacobson
conducted experiment in hospital
nurses had to give a patient an unknown injection
16/18 didnt administer it
shows agentic shift can only account for some situations of obedience
how does the agentic state explain cultural differences
countries differ in how much they are obedient
Kilham and Mann found only 16% of female australian participants went up to 450V in a milgram style study but 85% of germans did
reflects how different cultures are raised to show different levels of obedience
disadvantage of agentic state - cant explain disobedience
cant explain disobedience e.g the nurses in Rank and Jacobsons study
suggests some people may just be more or less obedient than others
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