Observing Obedience
How Sophisticated are Social Perceivers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10219871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew E Monroe (0000-0002-9755-8726, Florida State University, corresponding author), Glenn D Reeder (Illinois State University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 544-557 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/josi.12077 |
| OpenAlex | W1521421943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 40 |
How does the general public understand the behavior of Milgram's teachers—those participants who ostensibly tortured an innocent stranger? In our social perception analysis, we contrast two research traditions that attempt to answer this question. On one hand, lay dispositionism argues that people make harsh, person‐focused judgments of Milgram's teachers. On the other hand, a mental state account suggests that perceivers integrate information about social situations and agents’ behavior to infer the mental states of others. Mental state inferences then, in turn, drive social judgments of others. We review the theory of lay dispositionism, its application to the Milgram experiments, and several limitations of the theory. We then offer an alternative mental state account and support this view with recent studies on the Milgram experiments, and extensions to everyday behavior explanation. A final section considers the research and policy implications of our analysis
Cognitive psychology · Mental state · Milgram experiment · Obedience · Perception · State (computer science · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology
Identification and inferential processes in dispositional attribution.
How People Explain Behavior
From simple desires to ordinary beliefs
From Acts To Dispositions The Attribution Process In Person Perception
Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach
Meta-Analysis of Theory-of-Mind Development
A schematic model of dispositional attribution in interpersonal perception.
Obedience to authority
The Intuitive Psychologist And His Shortcomings
Perceiving people as group members
The prediction and perception of obedience to authority1
Obedience to Authority
Sugaring o'er the devil
Why did he do it? attribution of obedience and the phenomenon of dispositional bias
Revisioning Obedience
Constructive and Destructive Obedience
What Makes a Person a Perpetrator? The Intellectual, Moral, and Methodological Arguments for Revisiting Milgram's Research on the Influence of Authority
Obeying, Joining, Following, Resisting, and Other Processes in the Milgram Studies, and in the Holocaust and Other Genocides
The Explanatory Value of Milgram's Obedience Experiments
Ordinary Men,” Extraordinary Circumstances
Is there a hierarchy of social inferences? The likelihood and speed of inferring intentionality, mind, and personality
Impressions of Milgram's obedient teachers
Motive-matching
The correspondence bias
Overattribution and unit formation
Social roles, social control, and biases in social-perception processes
Actor-observer asymmetries in explanations of behavior
On cognitive busyness
Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation
The actor-observer asymmetry in attribution
Behavioral Study of obedience
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |