Orality and latency of volunteering to serve as experimental subjects: a replication |
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Authors: | Bornstein R F Masling J |
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Affiliation: | Dept. of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst 14226, USA. |
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Abstract: | Comparison of Rorschach orality scores for undergraduate subjects who signed up to participate in psychology experiments during the first (n = 217) and second (n = 87) halves of the semester revealed that early participators report a significantly (p = .03) greater number of oral Rorschach responses (X = 3.765) than late participators (X = 3.218). This result confirms an earlier serendipitous finding (Masling, O'Neill, & Jayne, 1981) that volunteering to participate in required experiments is not a chance event and can, in fact, be predicted using methods derived from psychoanalytic theory. Our finding supports the utility of psychoanalytic principles in predicting important aspects of nonlaboratory behavior. |
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