PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Emotional Contagion, Axon Terminal, Cell Nucleus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Weighing the risks and benefits of research minimal stress. Physical stress; hand in freezing water; cold virus-telling people they"re exposed to a virus when they"re really not. Cognitive and emotional stress; writing about upsetting or traumatic experience. Deception; given enough information to consent; clear if there are any risks. Full consent; not participate without penalty; should be able to drop out anytime; given equal opportunities; can"t be bias; opt out any time; with hold responses; researcher has to report to the irb if someone opts out. Explain true nature of the study at end. Major focus: emotional contagion transferring emotional states with experiencing same emotions as them around them. Motivation for experiment: many lab experiments show effect; correlation study on. Facebook suggests same transfer can occur via social networks. Research hypothesis contagion doesn"t exist in social networks 2. Null/alternative hypothesis contagion doesn"t exist (requires direct interaction) or might even have the opposite effect.