PSY-0013 Lecture Notes - Folding Chair, Job Interview, Personnel Selection
19 Feb 2014
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Industrial-organizational (i-o) psychology: study of human behavior in business and other organizational settings. Topics of relevance group process, conformity, diversity, stereotyping. Perceivers" expectations perceivers" behavior towards target targets" behavior towards perceiver (continuous cycle) Participant was always assigned the role of interviewer Instructed to interview an applicant for a position on a team that would compete in a later. Iv race of candidate (black or white), all confederates trained to behave in the same way. Dv immediacy behaviors (distance, forward lean, eye contact, speech errors) Results for white applicants, 0. 33 positive immediacy behaviors, for black applicants, -0. 11 negative immediacy behaviors. Iv behavior of interviewer (confederate) high immediacy/low immediacy confederates trained to behave the same way interviewers did in study 1. At some point in both conditions, interviewer asked candidate to place a folding chair near interviewer, then measured distance at end of experiment. Applicant performance performed better with interviewer behaving in a high immediacy behavioral way.
