Meuss & Raaijmakers Description

To see whether more modern psychological-administrative violence creates more or less obedience as compared to Milgram's method
The research took place in a university building where participants were led to believe they were taking part in a study into stress & performance
Participants believed that the Psychology department had been commissioned to select candidates for a job
1. and each candidate (confederates) was to take a test which would be administered by the participants
Participants were asked to make 15 increasingly distressing remarks to the applicants regarding how they were getting on with the test
1. "If you continue responding like this you're going to fail the test
If the subjects refused to continue to make the stressful remarks they were prodded to continue by the experimenter
92% of the participants obeyed the experimenter to the end and made all the stress remarks
73% of the participants were sure that they were dealing with a 'real' situation
The researchers conclude that the level of obedience in their study was considerably higher than in Milgram's study
This shows that it is easier to obey orders to use psychological-administrative violence than to obey orders to use physical violence

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