Charles k hofling biography of martin
This study analyses psychological processes involved in willingness of a midwife to accept directions from a senior person..
Hofling hospital experiment
Psychology field experiment on obedience
In 1966, the psychiatristCharles K.
Hofling conducted a field experiment on obedience in the nurse-physician relationship.[1] In the natural hospital setting, nurses were ordered by unknown doctors to administer what could have been a dangerous dose of a (fictional) drug to their patients.
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In spite of official guidelines forbidding administration in such circumstances, Hofling found that 21 out of the 22 nurses would have given the patient an overdose of medicine.[2]
Procedure
A person would telephone a nurse, saying that he was a doctor and giving a fictitious name, asking the nurse to administer 20 mg of a fictitious drug named "ASTROTEN" to a patient, and that he/she would provide the required signature for the medication later.
A bottle labelled "Astroten" had been placed in the drug cabinet, but there was no drug of that name on the approved list. The label clearly stated tha
