INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
AFFECTING OBEDIENCE
DISSENT keving
discer crom those held by others in
opinions that
relation 10 doedience. lt means recusing to camy out orders.
relatively
PERSONALITY
an individual's charactenstic, coherent and
Stable set of behauiours, attitudes, interests & capabilities.
RESISTANCE ability of withitand the socal presture
the people t0
to to the majonty and obey authonty.
G6 I am ceftain that there is a
complex personality basis to
Obedience and disobedience, but I Rnaw that we have not
found it. 55 - Milgram (1974)
PERSONALITY FACTORS
Theodore Adomo (1950): high levels of obedience can be linked to
a person's duispasition.
AUTHORITARIAN Rigid beliers in conventional values.
General hostility
PERSONALITY
towards other
Intolerance of ambiguity.
Belief in aggression tawards those with varying beliecs.
Submissive attitudes tawards authonty figures.
Negative view of people in general.
A need cor strong leadership.
According to Adomo, the
authontanian personality leads to higher
levels or obedience due to the characten stics
associated with ie
e.g. submissive attitudes towards authonty Gigures.
AFFECTING OBEDIENCE
DISSENT keving
discer crom those held by others in
opinions that
relation 10 doedience. lt means recusing to camy out orders.
relatively
PERSONALITY
an individual's charactenstic, coherent and
Stable set of behauiours, attitudes, interests & capabilities.
RESISTANCE ability of withitand the socal presture
the people t0
to to the majonty and obey authonty.
G6 I am ceftain that there is a
complex personality basis to
Obedience and disobedience, but I Rnaw that we have not
found it. 55 - Milgram (1974)
PERSONALITY FACTORS
Theodore Adomo (1950): high levels of obedience can be linked to
a person's duispasition.
AUTHORITARIAN Rigid beliers in conventional values.
General hostility
PERSONALITY
towards other
Intolerance of ambiguity.
Belief in aggression tawards those with varying beliecs.
Submissive attitudes tawards authonty figures.
Negative view of people in general.
A need cor strong leadership.
According to Adomo, the
authontanian personality leads to higher
levels or obedience due to the characten stics
associated with ie
e.g. submissive attitudes towards authonty Gigures.