The prescriptive power of the television host. A transposition of Milgram's obedience paradigm to the context of TV game show

Beauvois, Jean‐Léon; Courbet, Didier; Oberlé, Dominique

doi:10.1016/j.erap.2012.02.001

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“…In the present study, we shed a new light on how personality factors predicted obedience and rebellion in a Milgram‐like study recently carried out in the context of a television game show (Beauvois, Courbet, & Oberlé, ). We hypothesized that personality traits that are consensually desirable in interpersonal relationships, such as Agreeableness and Conscientiousness, could contribute to destructive obedience given the right context.…”

Section: Personality Factors and Obedience To Authoritymentioning

confidence: 74%

“…Only the standard condition and the host‐withdrawal condition differed significantly (see Beauvois et al. ).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Participants were contestants in a Milgram obedience study that was portrayed as a TV game show (see Beauvois et al., , for a full, detailed presentation, as well as ethical issues). Participants were 80 adults from the general population of Paris and surrounding communities.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Personality Predicts Obedience in a Milgram Paradigm

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This study investigates how obedience in a Milgram-like experiment is predicted by interindividual differences. Participants were 35 males and 31 females aged 26-54 from the general population who were contacted by phone 8 months after their participation in a study transposing Milgram's obedience paradigm to the context of a fake television game show. Interviews were presented as opinion polls with no stated ties to the earlier experiment. Personality was assessed by the Big Five Mini-Markers questionnaire (Saucier, 1994). Political orientation and social activism were also measured. Results confirmed hypotheses that Conscientiousness and Agreeableness would be associated with willingness to administer higher-intensity electric shocks to a victim. Political orientation and social activism were also related to obedience. Our results provide empirical evidence suggesting that individual differences in personality and political variables matter in the explanation of obedience to authority.

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Section: Personality Factors and Obedience To Authoritymentioning

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“…Only the standard condition and the host‐withdrawal condition differed significantly (see Beauvois et al. ).…”

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“…The authors concluded that “weakening perceived personal control increased an indiscriminate and generalized tendency for an ‘agentic shift’ (Milgram, ), the inclination to relinquish control from the self to external agents in the social environment” (p. 829). Beauvois, Courbet, and Oberle () also found for support for the agentic state in a TV game‐show resetting of Milgram's paradigm.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…The authors concluded that "weakening perceived personal control increased an indiscriminate and generalized tendency for an 'agentic shift' (Milgram, 1974), the inclination to relinquish control from the self to external agents in the social environment" (p. 829). Beauvois, Courbet, and Oberle (2012) also found for support for the agentic state in a TV game-show resetting of Milgram's paradigm. Hanson andYosifon (2003-2004), legal scholars representing a "radical situationist" perspective, dispute the argument that taking situations into account will absolve perpetrators of personal responsibility for their actions.…”

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The Explanatory Value of Milgram's Obedience Experiments: A Contemporary Appraisal

Miller

2014

Journal of Social Issues

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A contemporary appraisal of the explanatory value of the obedience experiments is presented, focusing upon a sample of recent generalizations linked to Milgram's theoretical interpretation. Processes emphasized include justification, the agentic shift, dehumanization, and resistance. These constructs have helped explain diverse phenomena in business ethics and corporate corruption, harmful obedience in legal practice, and whistleblowing, in addition to genocide. The major legacy continues to be the situational thesis that serious harm may be perpetrated upon protesting victims by ordinary, good people under the influence of authority. However, this thesis is still limiting and problematic in the view of many scholars, particularly with respect to the Holocaust. Unanswered questions are discussed. Individual differences in obedience (or disobedience) were noteworthy in Milgram's research, and convincing explanations for these differences remain unaddressed. An empirically validated theory, accounting for Milgram's entire set of observations, is needed, which would facilitate generalizations to relevant contexts.

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Agrawal²

2020

Gandhi and the Psychology of Nonviolence, Volume 1

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The prescriptive power of the television host. A transposition of Milgram's obedience paradigm to the context of TV game show

Cited by 36 publications

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Personality Predicts Obedience in a Milgram Paradigm

Personality Predicts Obedience in a Milgram Paradigm

The Explanatory Value of Milgram's Obedience Experiments: A Contemporary Appraisal

The Beginning: From Resisting Violence to Promoting Nonviolence

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