Goetz, Felix J. and Mitschke, Vanessa and Eder, Andreas B. (2023) Conflict experience and resolution underlying obedience to authority. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 13 (1): 11161. ISSN 2045-2322,
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Definitions of obedience require the experience of conflict in response to an authority's demands. Nevertheless, we know little about this conflict and its resolution. Two experiments tested the suitability of the 'object-destruction paradigm' for the study of conflict in obedience. An experimenter instructed participants to shred bugs (among other objects) in a manipulated coffee grinder. In contrast to the demand condition, participants in the control condition were reminded of their free choice. Both received several prods if they defied the experimenter. Results show that participants were more willing to kill bugs in the demand condition. Self-reported negative affect was increased after instructions to destroy bugs relative to other objects (Experiments 1 and 2). In Experiment 2, compliant participants additionally showed an increase in tonic skin conductance and, crucially, self-reported more agency and responsibility after alleged bug-destruction. These findings elucidate the conflict experience and resolution underlying obedience. Implications for prominent explanations (agentic shift, engaged followership) are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PERSONALITY; PARADIGM; BEHAVIOR; |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Mar 2024 13:52 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2024 13:52 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/59592 |
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