Sources of Anxiety in Laboratory Strangers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2275303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dennison Nash (University of Connecticut, corresponding author), Jerold Hei, Jerold Heiss (University of Connecticut) |
| Year | 1967 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-221 |
| Publication date | 1967-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1967.tb01049.x |
| OpenAlex | W2055536978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
IN PREVIOUS laboratory experiments with strangers a procedure created by Rose and Felton 1 was used to discover and explain typical reactions to being in the role of stranger. Nash and Wolfe 2 found that there was a characteristic perceptual response to taking the stranger's role. Their suggestion that it constituted a defense against stranger anxiety seems to have been confirmed by Heiss and Nash 3 who also observed that not all subjects experienced anxiety in the role of stranger. study which we are reporting here seeks to account for such differences by investigating the sources-both situational and personal-of stranger anxiety. essential procedure for creating laboratory strangers has involved two four-person groups which meet simultaneously in separate rooms and look at Rorschach card X over three epochs or trials. In each epoch the subjects write down what they see in the card and explain it to their colleagues. At the end of the third epoch one person from each group is switched into the opposite (foreign) group for three more epochs with the same card. This person is the stranger. We know that he may or may not experience anxiety. To understand his particular reaction, we need to know first how he would experience this new situation. When the stranger comes into the foreign or host group he finds three people arranged for exactly the same experimental task which he and his colleagues had performed at home, but the people and their way with the task are new to him. situation, then, would be somewhat problematic for the new arrivals. As Schuetz puts it, The cultural pattern of the approached group is to the stranger not a shelter but a field of adventure, not a matter of course but a questionable topic of investigation, not an instrument for disentangling problematic situations but a problematic situation in itself and one hard to master. 4 problematic situation encountered by our laboratory strangers would tend to
Anxiety · Perception · Psychiatry · Situational ethics · Task (project management) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 1994 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |