Question

It is likely that participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments (conducted in the 1960s and 1970s) were willing to administer increasingly severe shocks to a confederate learner because when confronted with a confusing, unfamiliar, and upsetting situation, they would turn to the experimenter for cues as to how to proceed. This speculation in essence identifies __________ as a source of participants' destructive obedience.

Answer 1

This speculation in essence identifies informational social influence as a source of participants' destructive obedience.

Informational social influence refers to where an individual conforms because they have a desire to be right and then look to the other people who they believe have more information.

Informational social influence is a form of conformity that occurs when an individual is not sure of a particular situation and lacks knowledge.

Therefore, the participants in Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments utilized informational social influence which is the willingness to accept the opinions of other people about reality.

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