Popular Psychological Tests and Self - Fulfilling Prophecy : An Experiment of Japanese Female Undergraduate Students  

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Sakamoto, Akira ; Miura, Shino ; Sakamoto, Katsura ; Mori, Tsutako

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Asian Journal of Social Psychology vol. 3 no. 2 (Aug. 2000), page 107-124.
Topik: PSYCHOLOGY; popular psychological test and self-fulfillment; prophecy; undergraduate student

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: AA49.1 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not the feedback of the results of popular psychological tests infuences human behaviour, and to compare the strength of any influence with that of academic psychological tests. We conducted an experiment in which 64 female japanese subjects took a popular or academic psychological test, and then interacted with a stranger. The subjects who tool each test received bogus feedback implying that they were extroverted or introverted. The results showed that subjects who received the extroversion feedback were more interactive with a stranger thant hose who received the introversion geedback, irrespective or whether they had taken the popular or academic test. This suggests that the feedback of popular psychological tests, like that of academic tests, can influence human behaviour and create a self fulfilling prophecy. The results also showed that those subjects who took the popular psycholofical tests reported higher psychological well - being than those who took the academic tests.

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