Right-Wing Authoritarianism and role as predictors of attributions about obedience to authority

Subjects saw a short 12-min version of the documentary, Obedience, showing a participant continuing to 180 V. The more authoritarian the viewer, the less the amount of responsibility he or she attributed to the teacher-subject for punishing the learner. Overall, viewers allocated the greatest amount of responsibility to the experimenter, less to the teacher-subject, and least to the learner.