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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 4, 466-469 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727600200422
© 1976 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

The Subject in Psychological Experiments: Effects of Experimentally Induced Subject Roles on Laboratory Performance

Brian M. Earn

University of Toronto

Rolf O. Kroger

University of Toronto

Subjects' role expectations were experimentally manipu lated in order to go beyond ex post facto inferences concerning the operation of subject roles in the laboratory. Students were given role conceptions defining the role of subject as active or passive and then placed in an experimental situation where they could cooperate or not cooperate with the experimenter. Results indicate that subjects' role conceptions influence their experim ental behavior and that role conceptions are easily altered.


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