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dc.contributor.authorBirney, Megan
dc.contributor.authorReicher, Stephen D.
dc.contributor.authorHaslam, S. Alexander
dc.contributor.authorSteffens, Niklas
dc.contributor.authorNeville, Fergus G.
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-17T13:30:04Z
dc.date.available2022-11-17T13:30:04Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-01
dc.identifier282171376
dc.identifier29c052c4-86a6-437c-b1e0-09e35300853b
dc.identifier85142271307
dc.identifier000884588200001
dc.identifier.citationBirney , M , Reicher , S D , Haslam , S A , Steffens , N & Neville , F G 2023 , ' Engaged followership and toxic science : exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructions ' , British Journal of Social Psychology , vol. 62 , no. 2 , pp. 866-882 . https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12603en
dc.identifier.issn0144-6665
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-7377-4507/work/123196876
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/26425
dc.descriptionFunding: This research was supported by Economic and Social Research Council grant (ES/L003104/1), a Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (FL110100199), from funding received from the School of Management at the University of St Andrews.en
dc.description.abstractDrawing on the ‘engaged followership’ reinterpretation of Milgram’s work on obedience, four studies (three of which were pre-registered) examine the extent to which people’s willingness to follow an experimenter’s instructions is dependent on the perceived prototypicality of the science they are supposedly advancing. In Studies 1, 2 and 3, participants took part in a study that was described as advancing either ‘hard’ (prototypical) science (i.e., neuroscience) or ‘soft’ (non-prototypical) science (i.e., social science) before completing an online analogue of Milgram’s ‘Obedience to Authority’ paradigm. In Studies 1 and 2, participants in the neuroscience condition completed more trials than those in the social science condition. This effect was not replicated in Study 3, possibly because the timing of data collection (late 2020) coincided with an emphasis on social science’s importance in controlling COVID-19. Results of a final cross-sectional study (Study 4) indicated that participants who perceived the study as to be more prototypical of science found it more worthwhile, reported making a wider contribution by taking part, reported less dislike for the task, more happiness at having taken part, and more trust in the researchers, all of which indirectly predicted greater followership. Implications for the theoretical understanding of obedience to the toxic instructions of an authority are discussed.
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dc.format.extent1049542
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofBritish Journal of Social Psychologyen
dc.subjectMilgramen
dc.subjectEngaged followershipen
dc.subjectToxic behaviouren
dc.subjectSocial identityen
dc.subjectObedienceen
dc.subjectBF Psychologyen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subjectMCCen
dc.subject.lccBFen
dc.titleEngaged followership and toxic science : exploring the effect of prototypicality on willingness to follow harmful experimental instructionsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorEconomic & Social Research Councilen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Managementen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12603
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberES/L003104/1en


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