Mermillod Milgram Experiment

They compared two different types of authority in a managerial setting.
Mermillod et al (2015)conducted a study which attempted to resolve different interpretations of the Milgram experiment’s results. They considered the social identity perspective, which predicts that more obedience will occur under a low level of coercive pressure and the traditional approach, which predicts that participants will be more obedient under a high level of pressure. M. Mermillod et al tested between these by studying the role of coersive pressure vs. lack of pressure in the obedience process. Participants will know this is a role playing game - they will be the employer and the employee will be competing for a competitive job. Participants were put under two conditions: in “Compliance with pressure”, they were explicitly ordered to say negative remarks to the employee as he/she took the test - this was to make sure the employee could handle high stress situations. In the “Compliance without pressure” condition experimenters(playing a consultant character) positively

For instance, we can extend the study to obedience processes of different aged students. Does age difference between experimenter and participant change the coercive process? In M. Mermillod, participants and experimenters were in the same age decade, meaning that the only imbalance is in the fact that the experimenter has an official scientific/businesslike status. In the classroom where there is an adult teacher and young students, there is a much larger power imbalance wherein the teacher is considered to be very experienced. In this experiment we would construct two different classrooms with the same teacher. One would have teens in sophomore year of high school and the second classroom would have children in 3rd grade. A hypothesis is that 3rd graders and teenagers will act vastly different because of their view of the teacher’s