obedience

when do you make an agentic shift

when given an order by someone we percieve to be higher on the social heirchy

what are binding factors

anything keeping us obedient. may reduce our moral strain to reassure ourselves its not our responsibility

who was the agent in milgram's research

the teacher

what made the teacher in milgrams study believe they were obeying legitimate authority

uniform - lab coat, location - yale university

what happened at my lai

a whole villiage was murdered by american soldiers because they were looking for a gang that wasnt there

what happened at abu graib prison

american guards abused prisiners even when not ordered

what happened with major trapp and battalion 101

the whole town needed murdering and soldiers were told that if they didnt want to participate they could be given other jobs. most went ahead and murdered

what did mandel argue that milgram was too focussed on

monocausal emphasis