Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Meeus and Raaijmaker-
Procedure in detail
- LOCATION- modern university building
- Participants led to
believe they were taking
part in a study on stress
and behaviour
- Participants believed that the
psychology department were
selecting candidates for a job
- Each applicant (CONFEDERATE) was to
take a test which would be administered by
participants
- Test = Vital to success
- If applicants failed the test
they lost the job
- Participants were asked to
make 15 distressing remarks
to the applicants
- Stating how they were
getting on with the test
- "if you continue responding like
this, you're going to fail the test
- Participants also overhead the experimenter
telling the 'applicants' false info about the study
- 'It would not affect their job chances'
- 2/3 through the test the
'applicant' accussed the
researchers of giving flase info
- And withdrew consent to continue
- Soon became obvious that
applicant was getting
distressed and would fail
- Therefore not get the job
- Subjects refused to continue to
make stressful remarks = they
would be prodded by
experimenter
- A participant who made all stress
remarks was seen as obedient
- Participants who refused to make all the stress
remarks were considered disobedient