PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Shelley E. Taylor, Paraplegia, Mind Control
16 May 2012
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The study was criticized because it was said that the way it was conducted limited the number of conclusions that can be drawn from it. They said that the situation was not that the chinese couple were going to a restaurant, but that a chinese couple was being accompanied by a caucasian american; this is different than if they were alone. Also, people indicated that it is a specific person telling someone that they cannot eat there. Lapierre did not know if the person who had responded to the letter was the person who had served them. We discussed this already; the study conducted in the mall at the top of an escalator that takes them down to the food court. The manipulation is not to change their opinion about the food guide, but to bring the attitude into consciousness (for half of the people).
