PSYC3430 (YU) Chapter 8

Milgram essentially wanted to if a certain personality would be more willing to comply with orders from an authority

• - enhances group effectiveness
• - to benefit followers and group
• - use of power is agreed upon

65% obeyed till 450 olts of shock

• - capacity to influence others
• - quite common, like boss telling you to work
• - Power tends to corrupts , but not always

• - he replicated milgram's
• -70% of sample had to be stopped from giving 150 volt shock

Experiment known as the Stanford Prison Study

• - Participants were assigned to play role as prison or police
• - however study discontinued after 6 days, as subjects were acting very weird
• - tunrs out Zimbardo scrapped the plan since it was going out of hand by his woman, without her probably wouldn't have realized

It is acknowledging of heirarchical positioning, as the prison study indicated

Blaming yourself when its really the larger system at fault

It involves 6 key power bases, who are the roots of power

• - Reward: control incentives ( power increases when rewards are scarce, and lowers when its not so scarce)
• - Coercive : Use of physical punishment, or threaten to
• - Legitimate: has a right to demand obedience
• - Referent: Having respect and attraction as the powerholder
• - Expert: Target beliefts, the person is extraordinary
• - Informational: Manipulate and distribute information ( fareha)

• - Direct (strong) vs indirect (weak) tactics [ using relationship]
• - Rational (logic) vs nonrational (emotional)
• - Unilateral (no cooperation on the matter) vs Bilateral ( cooperation)
• - Behaviour commitment
•  1) Foot-in-the-door-technique ( influence to make one small request, and then accept more requests afterwards)
• 2) Weber's charismatic leadership: Followers belive leader is amazing

This is in response to coercive influence

Compliance: group members comply with the powerholder's demands, but they do not personally agree with them

Identification: group members are motivated to please authority

Internalization: group members obey b/c they personally believe in it

Organisms show one or two types of reactions

An approach behaviour increases power

Where a reduction in power leads to inhibition

Vieweing people/groups in terms of relative dominance order

It is the need for power

When leaders overstep bounds of their authority

Perpective changes among their subordinates

As they rely on power to influence others

Essentially people who are in power, wnat to stay in power or enhance it

The coalition is a subgroup that goes against their current leader.

Reactance is a cognitive and emotional response to go against leaders of coercive influence.

Egocentric, deceitfull shallow impulsive indivudals who use and manipulate others

Lacking empathy

• Little remorse and seek thrills
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• No conscience

Human predators