Emily W. Gold frank Assignment 3-3 11/14/00 Annotations Wegner & Cra no, 1975 Subjects consisted of 144 students, equally divided with respect to race and gender, from a large Midwestern university. Experimenters consisted of 12 college students, also equally divided with respect to race and gender. Each experimenter tested 3 of each race-gender combination. Experimenters approached individual naive subjects in the hallways of different building throughout the campus.
Experimenters waited for an individual who met their specific race-gender specifications and then, seemingly engrossed in a decked of computer cards, waiting until the subject was about a step away, dropped their deck of cards. Whether or not the subject immediately assisted the experimenter was either scored as an instance of helping or not. The results of the study indicated that white people Blacks Black">black people help other black people more, white people did not help either race more frequently, black people were helped more frequently by other black people, white people were helped more frequently by other white people, and that white males helped less frequently than black males or than white females. This study relates to our study on reactions to door holding in its examination of a different helping behavior and its examination of race and gender as variables. Additionally, this study takes into consideration both the race and gender of the experimenter as well as of the subject.
The Research paper on Race Class Gender
Race, class, and gender are the three main things that separate and hold people back in today’s society. I’d like to be able to say that things have progressively gotten better as time continues to pass, and to an extent they have, but in reality we still live in an extremely ignorant and subjective society. The fact is, people everyday are being turned down for jobs and opportunities not because ...
