Authors
Karen L Westford, Edward Diener, Carol Diener
Publication date
1973
Journal
Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association
Publisher
American Psychological Association
Description
Conducted a field experiment on Halloween evening to assess the effects of physiological arousal and group presence on stealing by children. Over 800 trick-or-treaters were given an opportunity to steal extra candy and were unobtrusively monitored by concealed raters. As Zimbardo's theory of deindividuation would predict, both arousal and group presence led to significantly more stealing, and there was a significant (p<. 001) interaction between these 2 variables.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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