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Ethical issues

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Carried out before guidelines were in place and useful when resolving question of what happened in Germany could have happened else where
Does the study outweigh the harm caused? Ppts were very deceived so probs not

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Free will determinism

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Determinism
65% obeyed
Free will
35% didn’t obey and chose how they acted

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Usefulness of research

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Can be useful as it suggests ppl are expected to he obedient to someone in authority, useful in schools and businesses
Not useful as it can be abused by the people who might get people to obey for malicious purposes

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Link to area

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Revealing extent to which peoples behaviour can be influenced by others and the situation
People follow orders that are clearly morally wrong because of the situation

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Link to key theme

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Tells us that obedience to someone in authority, even when they are being asked to harm someone else, is much more common than we believe

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Individual situational

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Situation
Descriptions of how they behaved shows they were uncomfortable. 65% obeyed which shows power of the situation. Milgram carried out variations to see which features had the greatest impact and it was the situation
Individual
35% disobeyed which shows personalities are a greater impact on behaviour
Milgram collected background info on his ppts to see if there were ant individual factors of those who were obedient and disobedient