PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nonviolent Video Game, Alf Landon, The Literary Digest
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Research methods: often times our predications of how other influences us are sometimes accurate, and sometimes not. Some events don"t occur frequently enough in daily life: riots, mass suicide in cults. Experimental research: often viewed as gold standard in social psychological research. Social psychologists place themselves in real situations to understand social phenomena better. Understanding other cultures, they would move to that county and live with people. Researcher don"t have to be physically present. The prof records relationships, but from the videotapes, the social psychologists was able to code people"s interactions (ie. Records of any kind, such as: police reports, medical records, sports statistics, diaries, newspaper articles, novels, suicide notes. Often times, we can answer interesting questions by capitalizing available data (public) York university researchers analyzed playmates of the year from 1977 to 1996. By the last year of the study, all of the women were underweight according to canada"s health guidelines. Playgirl centerfolds analyzed from 1986 to 1997.
