Bocchiaro

Question 1

How many participants did Bocchiaro use?

Answer 1

149 undergraduate students from VU university in Amsterdam

Question 2

What experiment was used, and why?

Answer 2

Laboratory study because there was no independent variable

Question 3

How much were they paid to participate?

Answer 3

€7

Question 4

What were the two personality traits and what did they measure?

Answer 4

HEXCO-P-I-R= measures emotionality

Decomposed games measure of social values= selfishness

Question 5

What did the cover story consist of?

Answer 5

Sensory deprivation, no noise or sight and suffered with visual and audial hallucinations

Question 6

What were the 4 adjectives used in the letter, and how many did they have to mention in the letter?

Answer 6

Exciting, incredible, great and superb

They had to use 2

Question 7

What was the percentage of participants who obeyed?

Answer 7

76.5%

Question 8

What was the percentage of participants who disobeyed?

Answer 8

14.1%

Question 9

What was the percentage of participants who blew the whistle?

Answer 9

9.4%

Question 10

What were 2 key findings?

Answer 10

There is a big difference between how people think they will behave, and how they actually behave

People are more likely to obey than disobey and more likely to disobey than whistle blow

Question 11

What were the conclusions of the Bocchiaro study?

Answer 11

People obey authority figures, even if the authority is not right

Individual factors do not affect disobedience, situational factors appear to be much more important