A similar point was made in a study by Safer (1980) of students’ tendency to attribute obedience in the Milgram experiment to dispositional tendencies rather than to the power of the situation. Safer showed the Milgram obedience film to students. Despite the film’s emphasis on the extent to which it was the situational factors that compelled obedience, subjects substantially overestimated the amount of shock that would be administered when those factors were absent. Thus subjects continued to interpret behavior in terms of presumed dispositions, rather than recognizing the crucial role that
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