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Hello /sci/,

This is my first time here, so this may not even be the right place (if it isn't, I apologize).

This is related to psychology.

Many years ago in my basic psych class in college it was mandatory we had to sign up for a few of the experiments the seniors were conducting. One of the experiments I was in has always stuck in my mind.

I was placed in a small room, seated at a desk with a test in front of me (included basic math problems, logical thinking questions, puzzles, etc). A few feet away to my side was a female sat in another chair. I was to finish the test and then leave when I was done.

I finished the test very quickly, no problems at all, and was fully aware the girl was staring at me the whole time. At the end of the test it asked a few questions about the test, one of which is if the person in the room bothered me at all or if I think they affected how well I did on the test.

A few of the other people in my class said that when they took it the person in the room was blindfolded.

Does anyone know what the experiment was about / what it's purpose was? I've always thought it was very interesting, but have no idea the reasoning behind it.

>> No.5585864

Seems to be a variation of something I read a while back. It pretty much said that if you were talking in front of a group, your anxiety would be lower if the audience was wearing sunglasses and that anxiety was just as dependent on seeing their eyes and knowing they were looking at you as it was on actually being in front of them.

>> No.5585870

Probably measuring performance with an observer vs. performance with a non observer.

>> No.5585885

Was the observer always a woman or did the gender change depending on who was being observed. Also about what age group would you say the woman was in compared to yourself?

>> No.5585889

>>5585885
comparison*

>> No.5585928

>bitch wants my dick
>inflated ego aces test

>> No.5585935

>>5585864
>>5585870

Understood, that makes a bit more sense. I don't know why it's always stood out in my mind. I ended up doing several of the experiments/tests even after I did the required amount because I've always enjoyed things like that. But this one just always stayed with me.

>>5585885

The observer was, from what the other students said, the opposite gender of the test-taker.

The girl in the room with me seemed a bit younger than me, maybe 19 or 20. Also very attractive, not sure if that was coincidental or not.

>> No.5585965

>>5585935
Its a study on sexuality and performance from a few years back. The general result was that men tend to focus more when being observed by a female but females generally either perform worse or don't care. They also found that it didn't matter if you were being observed or not, the presence of the opposite gender is enough

>> No.5585982

>>5585965
i question the validity of those conclusions
what did they do to eliminate the beta bias?

>> No.5585997

>>5585965

OP here, very interesting.

Thanks for all the input/answers. I'm going to look more into this.