SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Good Feeling, Nationstates, Steven Pinker
30 Mar 2015
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Power: the ability to influence and control the behaviour of others even against. Compliance: when the target"s behaviour conforms to the source"s requests. Authority: the capacity of one member to issue orders to others by invoking rights. Obedience to authority their will that are vested in their role rights/obligations. performances. People"s roles/positions within an organization give them certain. These give one person authority over another with respect to certain acts and. Recruited participants from range of backgrounds (age 20-50) All participants actually assigned teacher condition (no real learner) Participants told they were participating in a memory test told to shock learner after wrong answer. Actual research question: how many participants will comply and shock learner at. 9 out of 12 (75%) participants went to the end (440v) In original milgram study, 63% went all the way. Science as a legitimate institution for the greater good. Deferral to expert authority reduced perceived personal responsibility http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=pdb20gcc_ns.
