Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2012
Published In
Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception And Performance
Abstract
Experiments take place in a physical environment but also a social environment. Generalizability from experimental manipulations to more typical contexts may be limited by violations of ecological validity with respect to either the physical or the social environment. A replication and extension of a recent study (a blood glucose manipulation) was conducted to investigate the effects of experimental demand (a social artifact) on participant behaviors judging the geographical slant of a large-scale outdoor hill. Three different assessments of experimental demand indicate that even when the physical environment is naturalistic, and the goal of the main experimental manipulation was primarily concealed, artificial aspects of the social environment (such as an explicit requirement to wear a heavy backpack while estimating the slant of a hill) may still be primarily responsible for altered judgments of hill orientation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)(journal abstract)
Recommended Citation
Frank H. Durgin; Brennan James Klein , '14; Ariana Michelle Spiegel , '13; Cassandra Joy Strawser , '13; and Morgan James Christopher Williams , '14.
(2012).
"The Social Psychology Of Perception Experiments: Hills, Backpacks, Glucose, And The Problem Of Generalizability".
Journal Of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception And Performance.
Volume 38,
Issue 6.
1582-1595.
DOI: 10.1037/a0027805
https://works.swarthmore.edu/fac-psychology/49
Comments
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© 2012 American Psychological Association. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. Please do not copy or cite without author's permission. The final article is available, upon publication, at: 10.1037/a0027805