SOC 014 Chapter Notes - Chapter NA: The Milgram Paradigm After 35 Years: Fundamental Attribution Error, Milgram Experiment, Social Perception

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 014
• Professor: Lutz F Kaelber

Document Summary

Conflict between conscience and authority is not entirely a philosophical issue: many subjects felt that they shouldn"t go on but were unable to act on that act on that feeling and stop. Informational power: the information the experimenter provides is compelling or convincing to the subject. In attempting to predict obedience, people tend to overlook the influence of the situation in giving the authority power in favor of placing weight on personal dispositions of the subject: fundamental attribution error. Eight out of nine studies conducted since milgram"s original experiment have found no gender differences in obedience to authority.