What’s on the Obedience poster
A 7-row table: Variation · Obedience.
Milgram's variations and the resulting obedience rate.
- Baseline, Yale — 65%
- Run-down office — 48%
- Teacher and learner same room — 40%
- Teacher forces learner's hand — 30%
- Orders by telephone — 21%
- Ordinary man gives orders — 20%
- Two dissenting confederates — 10%
Agentic state: people shift responsibility to the authority. Proximity, location and legitimacy all change the rate.
Questions about the Obedience poster
- What’s on the Obedience poster?
- A 7-row table: Variation · Obedience. Milgram's variations and the resulting obedience rate. Baseline, Yale — 65%; Run-down office — 48%; Teacher and learner same room — 40%; Teacher forces learner's hand — 30%; Orders by telephone — 21%; Ordinary man gives orders — 20%; Two dissenting confederates — 10%. Agentic state: people shift responsibility to the authority. Proximity, location and legitimacy all change the rate.
- Who is the Obedience poster for?
- Obedience belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning social can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Obedience poster?
- 65% administered the maximum shock. The situation mattered far more than personality. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Obedience belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Obedience?
- Helping Behaviour, Attitudes & Behaviour and Attribution sit alongside Obedience in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Helping BehaviourAttitudes & BehaviourAttribution
- Is the Obedience poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Obedience downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Obedience poster print at?
- Obedience is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Obedience loses nothing.Printing guide
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