The effect of experimenter evaluation on self-evaluation within the social loafing paradigm

Article Abstract:

Social inactivity can be overcome by self-evaluation according to a research conducted on 112 male and female undergraduate students. The limits and the willingness for self-evaluation were judged on the basis of the conditions the participants were willing to work in. The participants welcomed self-evaluation but shunned any evaluation made by the researchers in the present experiment. The capacity for self-evaluation is a strong, but unreliable, source of inspiration. The concern over the experimenter's evaluation distracts the participants enough for them to overlook the possibility of self-evaluation.

Social aspects, Self-evaluation, Self evaluation

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Majority and minority influence using the afterimage paradigm: a series of attempted replications

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A series of five tests attempted to replicate a 1980 study which allegedly demonstrates perceptual conversion by a minority but not by a majority in a task involving the assessment of so-called afterimages. Subjects of the experiments were shown a series of blue slides. They were asked to identify the color of the slide, either green or blue. After looking at the blue side they viewed a white screen, after which they were asked to identify what they saw, also called the afterimage. Results of the tests are discussed.

Visual perception, Color vision, Imagery (Psychology), Eidetic imagery, After-images, Afterimages

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Between-subject or within-subject measures of regret: Dilemma and solution

Article Abstract:

The 'action effect', according to which actions produce more regret than failures to act, is shown to disappear in between-subject designs and it is argued that the disappearance is due to the inability of regret scales to capture differences in perceived regret when used in between-subject designs. A new method, the common reference method, is proposed in order to overcome this problem.

China, Analysis, Failure (Psychology), Regret

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