PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homeostasis
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Slide 23: subjects cannot be coerced to participate into an experiment (as in forced to). Not supposed to be too in your face"- instead, you have to approach them. Of deception- study of prejudice vs. low self-esteem, prejudice highest during lowest point at economy, like how there was a prejudice against jews after ww1 in germany when many were poor. Study was to watch movies of french-canadian, and see how far they go to agree on anti-french- But to test self-esteem, they put them in rooms. The experimenters use slide show presentations using stacks of slides. They create an accident where the slides fall apart and blame the subject, then send that subject to the movies when their self-esteem was lowered. In the control room, it was just a talk, then watch a movie. At the end, a lower self-esteem led to less prejudice. Problem, you could have gotten the subject angry as well as low-esteemed.
