My research topic is exploring the effectiveness of persuasion techniques commonly found in social psychology such as "foot-in-the door" and"door-in-the-face" phenomenons. These are important because they are commonly taught compliance techniques and have been heavily studied in my field of psychology.
I have a few research questions I can dive into with these compliance strategies. One is, do these strategies and which strategies work better than no strategy at all? Do certain strategies work better on specific genders? Finally, which strategy is most effective of the ones used in the experiment?
I plan on conducting an experiment maybe even more than one experiment to test my hypothesis. My hypothesis is that the foot-in-the-door technique works better than chance, and better than the "door-in-the-face" phenomenon. The independent variable is the strategy used and the dependent variable is compliance. One group will be the control group with no strategy used before asking the question. The second group will receive the foot-in-the-door phenomenon, and the third and final group will receive the door-in-the-face strategy. The participants in my study will all be between the ages of 16-21 so that there is a higher internal validity to my study. In addition each question will be asked of someone that I know, so that the data is not skewed by biases from strangers to further increase my internal validity. I will attempt to include 5-10 people in each group to increase external validity, and ask the same questions throughout the experiment to help eliminate confounds.
I have a few research questions I can dive into with these compliance strategies. One is, do these strategies and which strategies work better than no strategy at all? Do certain strategies work better on specific genders? Finally, which strategy is most effective of the ones used in the experiment?
I plan on conducting an experiment maybe even more than one experiment to test my hypothesis. My hypothesis is that the foot-in-the-door technique works better than chance, and better than the "door-in-the-face" phenomenon. The independent variable is the strategy used and the dependent variable is compliance. One group will be the control group with no strategy used before asking the question. The second group will receive the foot-in-the-door phenomenon, and the third and final group will receive the door-in-the-face strategy. The participants in my study will all be between the ages of 16-21 so that there is a higher internal validity to my study. In addition each question will be asked of someone that I know, so that the data is not skewed by biases from strangers to further increase my internal validity. I will attempt to include 5-10 people in each group to increase external validity, and ask the same questions throughout the experiment to help eliminate confounds.
This research topic serves as a very good one to observe. You stated the importance of the topic and explain your plans in details. The questions are specific and open-ended too. However, there may be bias in this experiment since the people that you plan to observe are someone easy to reach rather than random people, and there may be some difficulties on designing the questions you are going to ask. But overall it's a good topic.
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