Recall that in a study by Baron et al. (1996), participants in one condition were asked to select perpetrators after a lineup in
conditions of low ambiguity, so that participants in the control condition made very few mistakes. Recall also that some participants were told that the task was one that was being designed for use by the police department and were offered $20 if they were the most accurate, while others were told that it was just a laboratory task under development. This condition of the study found that __________.
the more important it was to participants to be correct, the less they conformed to other group members’ answers.
Explanation:
The study was made to evaluate the relationship that an individual has between being correct and in accordance with a group to which that individual is inserted. In the experiment, a group of people was formed and asked to do some tasks. As we can see from the question above, some participants were informed that the task was being designed for use by the police department and received $ 20 if it was the most accurate, while others were informed that it was just a lab task under development.
This divergence from the information given to the participants allowed us to realize that, regarding motivation, the more important it was for the participants to be correct, the less they complied with the responses of other group members.
