Administrative Obedience

Carrying Out Orders to use Psychological‐Administrative Violence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10902544
AutoresWim Meeus (0000-0002-5496-3430, Utrecht University, autor correspondente), Wim H J Meeus, Quinten A W Raaijmakers (Utrecht University)
Ano1986
Volume16
Fascículo4
Páginas311-324
Data de publicação1986-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0046-2772 • E-ISSN: 1099-0992
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ejsp.2420160402
OpenAlexW2132795650
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas12

A paradigm named ‘administrative obedience’ was designed to study obedience in carrying out orders to use a kind of violence that is typical for our times, namely psychological‐administrative violence resulting in definite harm. In this study, the victim was an applicant for a job, who came to the laboratory to take a test, This test would determine whether or not he would get the job. Subjects were ordered, in the context of a research project, to make the applicant nervous and to disturb him during the test; consequently, the applicant failed the test and remained unemployed. More than 90 per cent of the subjects carried out these orders, although they considered them unfair and did not enjoy doing the task, The level of administrative obedience found in our study is higher than the level of obedience found in the comparable experiment by Milgram. The experimental conditions ‘Experimental absent’ and ‘Two peers rebel’ produced a reduction of obedience in our paradigm comparable to that which occurred in Milgram's paradigm

Context (archaeology) · Harm · Management · Milgram experiment · Obedience · Task (project management) · Test (biology) · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Psychology · Psychology of Social Influence · Social Psychology · Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment