Field experiments

What are the differences between the field and laboratory experiments?

1. Natural surroundings

2. No hawthorne effect → don’t know they’re being watched

Rosenhan example

Pseuedopatients → said that they heared voices → admitted and diagnosed as schizophrenic → not actually mentally ill → staff treated as if mentally ill

Evaluation: Hard to recreate

Durkheim suicide study

Low levels of integration of individuals within society caused suicide rates to rise → catholic church had more integration than protestants → lower levels of suicide → supported by official statistics

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