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Chapter 8: Group Influence
Please respond to the discussion prompt (assignment - worth 25 pts). Your prompt response acknowledges your presence/participation for the week. Failure to follow directions will result in forfeiture of points.
Myers reports that anonymity can release positive as well as negative impulses. Imagine yourself as participants in a study conducted by Gergen, Gergen, and Barton (1973). The psychologist ushers you into a room that is fully lit or totally dark except for a tiny red light over the door so that, if you wish, you can leave at any time. He tells you, “You will be left in the room for no more than an hour with some other people, and there are no rules as to what you should do together. At the end you will leave the room alone and will never meet the other participants.” You then spend the next 60 minutes with seven strangers.
What happens? Those in the lighted room sat around making light conversation. In contrast, participants in the dark talked less, but about more important things. Ninety percent intentionally touched someone and half hugged another. Very few disliked the experience; in fact, most volunteered to return without pay. Anonymity had released intimacy.
1. How would you explain the results of this study in five or more complete sentences?
Myers reports that anonymity can release positive as well as negative impulses. Imagine yourself as participants in a study conducted by Gergen, Gergen, and Barton (1973). The psychologist ushers you into a room that is fully lit or totally dark except for a tiny red light over the door so that, if you wish, you can leave at any time. He tells you, “You will be left in the room for no more than an hour with some other people, and there are no rules as to what you should do together. At the end you will leave the room alone and will never meet the other participants.” You then spend the next 60 minutes with seven strangers.
What happens? Those in the lighted room sat around making light conversation. In contrast, participants in the dark talked less, but about more important things. Ninety percent intentionally touched someone and half hugged another. Very few disliked the experience; in fact, most volunteered to return without pay. Anonymity had released intimacy.
1. How would you explain the results of this study in five or more complete sentences?
First thing I don't think I could do it because I don't like being in the dark and it would be wired to be in the room with strangers. People in the lighted room was alright because the had light and they were able to see one another. The people in the dark where scared and they didn't know the people with so they didn't know what was going to happen. With the study I can see that with light people would feel more comfortable because they were able to see around them. For the people in the dark had more time to think and be scared because they didn't know what was going to happen to them. In the dark people tend to be more helpless and for them not knowing anyone they didn't know what the other person was like. Who is to say that person next to you in the dark, might not what like to be touch and you grab them. There is so many things that the study can show from a person when it come from being in the dark or light. You might met a new friend or a mean person because they don't care to be around a person or to close.
