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proximity

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obedience decreased to 40% when teacher could hear learner and to 30% in touch proximity condition

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location

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obedience decreased to 47.5% when study moved to run down office block

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uniform

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obedience decreased to 20% when member of the public was the experimenter

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research support

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Bickman showed power of uniform in field experiment

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Lack of internal validity

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some of milgrams procedures contrived so not genuine obedience

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Cross cultural replications

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cross cultural findings support Milgram but almost all studies in similar cultures to USA so not very generalisable

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control of variables

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systematically altered one variable at a time such as proximity to see what effect it would have
All the other procedures and variables were kept the same as the study was replicated over and over with more than 1000 participants in total

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the obedience of alibi

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Mandel (1998)- argues that situational variables offer an excuse or alibi for evil behaviour eg the Nazis were simply obeying orders and were victims of situational factors