PSYC 342 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stanley Milgram, Social Influence

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 342
• Professor: Leandre R Fabrigar

Document Summary

Changes in behaviour produced by commands of an authority. Worked with asch as a graduate student but wanted to examine social influence situations that were more consequential. Many social scientists actually witnessed wwii personally, and were interested in the way people behaved during that period. Basic procedure: participants believed they were taking part in a study on punishment and learning, procedure. Participant to administer shocks to a learner each time an error was made. 15v all the way to 450v and administered shocks even at dangerous levels. Each subsequent error required the shock to increase by. Results: if particpants went to 150v, the vast majority (79%) continued to the maximum earlier than later) If participants wanted to break off, they would have done so. Physical presence and apparent legitimacy of authority figure: victim was removed from teacher in the experiment; milgram believed that victim proximity would have played a role (see below)