A study on the resistance of observation systems of observers' expectancies

Different sets of expectations were induced in groups of observers before asking them to observe a film. Four aspects of Hall's notation system for the observation of proxemic behavior (1963) were adopted for the purposes of this study and another observation aspect was added. All Ss observed the same scenes of the film. They only differed in the kind of information on experimenters' beliefs and the hypotheses of the observation study. Results indicate that induced expectancies influenced the recordings of the observers. Implications of these outcomes are discussed

Cognitive psychology · Linguistics · Notation · Proxemics · Resistance (ecology) · Communication · Data Visualization and Analytics · Media Influence and Health · Plant and animal studies · Psychology · Social Psychology

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