Post by Tomspy77 on Jan 29, 2014 22:23:20 GMT -6
Seattle Kids Part of Halloween Experiment in 1976: NFSW
newsfromthespiritworld.com/2014/01/29/seattle-kids-part-of-halloween-experiement-in-1976/#more-1759
A recent post by the excellent website IO9 brought to light a psychological experiment conducted by researchers on Trick or Treaters in Seattle, Washington in the Fall of 1976.
The experiment involved around seven-hundred Seattle area children who went Trick or Treating at one of 18 different houses in that year.
Instructed by a woman to enter the house and told to only take one piece of candy from a bowl in the room, the children were left alone and watched via a peephole to observe their actions.
The object, of course, was to see if the unwatched child or group of children would only take on piece of candy as instructed or if they would take multiple pieces.
The experiment involved around seven-hundred Seattle area children who went Trick or Treating at one of 18 different houses in that year.
Instructed by a woman to enter the house and told to only take one piece of candy from a bowl in the room, the children were left alone and watched via a peephole to observe their actions.
The object, of course, was to see if the unwatched child or group of children would only take on piece of candy as instructed or if they would take multiple pieces.
newsfromthespiritworld.com/2014/01/29/seattle-kids-part-of-halloween-experiement-in-1976/#more-1759
