Obedience: social-psychological factors
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- Obedience: social-psychological factors
- Explanation 2: Legitimacy of Authority
- Charismatic leaders use their legitimate powers for destructive purposes
- Authorities have legitimacy through societies agreement
- We hand our control of our behaviour over to authority figures due to trust and through upbringing
- We obey people at the top of a social hierarchy
- Explanation 1: Agentic State
- Agentic shift occurs when a person defers to the authority figure
- The opposite on an agentic state is an autonomous state
- Binding factors reduce the 'moral strain' of obeying immoral orders
- An agentic state occurs when we act on behalf another person
- Weaknesses
- Agentic state cannot account for the behaviour of the Nazi's
- Agentic shift doesn't explain many of the research findings
- Strengths
- Legitimacy of authority is a useful account of cultural differences on obedience
- Legitimacy of authority can explain real-life obedience
- Agentic state explanation has research support
- Explanation 2: Legitimacy of Authority
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