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Return to description of social expersim. Skip to Stage 2. CoactionIn this condition, two subjects arrive at the experiment simultaneously. This coordination is not haphazard, simply because the "other subject" is an accomplice of thge experimenter. Typically, he/she is a college sophomore in the pay of the researcher. The accomplice (otherwise known as the stooge) occupies one of the chairs and conducts himself in a noncommittal subkect-like way. The only difference in the instructions between the alone and the coaction situation is that in the latter the sophomores are asked not to speak or otherwise communicate during the session. Both work on the booklets.
AudienceIn this condition the real subject arrives and is seated at the table. The situation is identical to the alone condition except that at the point where the experimenter is about to give the instructions, there is a knock at the door. It is the stooge. He is admitted and explains that he is college sophomore #123-45-6789 and that he is there for an experiment. The experimenter scans his clipboard and informs the stooge that he is a full half-hour early, but if he wants to wait he can sit in the chair across from the subject. The stooge agrees and sits down. The sophomores are instructed to abstain from communicating and the experimenter reads aloud the instructions to the subject. Here, only the subject works on a booklet.Comments to: Gary.McClelland@Colorado.EDU  Revised: 22 August 2001 File: expersim/social1.html |