PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Playgirl, Sampling Bias
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Nba study are participants in teams more likely to win if they touch each other more. Teams got scores for how many times they interacted/touched teammate. Found that individual teams that touched each other more won more games. Cannot watch or use cameras trust the survey answers. Random samples so can generalize to overall population. Experiments when doing study, don"t want to assign first 20 to one condition and second 20 to other. May be a difference between people who come early or late. People who played mortal combat punished confederate more. People named george more likely to live in georgia. People named dennis more likely to be dentists than professors. It takes courage to grow up and be who you are. Gang members are most violent when they are disrespected or threatened. Self-knowledge comes from looking within and looking to our social world. It is important to feel good about (cid:498)the self(cid:499)
