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| Joop Van Der Plight (response options) |
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| asked voters what percentage of Britain's nuclear energy they wished came from nuclear power, the average was 41%. They asked other voters what percentage they wished came from (1) nuclear, (2) coal, and (3) other sources. The average preference for nuclear power was 21% among these respondents. (Pg. 22) |
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| assessed emotional resiliency of workers who escaped the World Trade Center and found that those who displayed self-enhancing tendencies were the most resilient. |
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| conducted an experiment concerning drugs and intellectual performance. Duke University students answered difficult questions and then was told their scores were the best to date.They were then offered a choice between 2 drugs: one will aid intellectual performance and the other will inhibit it. Most students chose the drug that would disrupt their thinking, thus providing an excuse for anticipated poorer performance. (pg 70-71) |
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showed people the results of a hypothetical 50-day cloud-seeding experiment.
• They told the participants which of the days the clouds had been seeded and which days it rained. The info was just a mixture of results.
• However, participants became convinced; in conformity with their ideas about the effects of cloud-seeding-that they actually had observed a relationship between cloud seeding and rain. |
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| say that the desire to be on top (hierarchically) makes people of high social dominace accept prejudice and support political positions that justify prejudice. |
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| noted how stereotypes of blacks and women help rationalize the inferior status of each: Many people thought both groups were mentally slow, emotional and primitive, and "contended" with their subordinate role. Blacks were all right in their place, and women's place was in the home. (Pg. 311) |
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| repeated asch's conformity experiment (The one with the three lines p.194), and found 31% in Lebanon, 32% in Hong Kong, 34% in Brazil, but 51% conformed among the Bantu of Zimbabwe, a tribe with strong sanctions for nonconformity. (Pg. 215) |
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| gave an example of a writer, Helen, who writes cheap westerns and wants to write a novel. The participants would individually have to choose at what success rate should Helen write the novel (10/10 is certain that the novel will be a success). They would be split off into groups to discuss and reach an agreement. |
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| did a study where eyewitnesses who make their identifications in less than 10-12 seconds were almost 90% accurate. However those taking longer were only 50% accurate. |
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| analyzed eyewitness viewings of London police lineups and found that 9 in 10 fast identifications were of the actual suspect. Only 4 in 10 slow identifications were the correct suspect. |
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