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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1985
Class aids psvch research as subjects
By Beth Copeland Special to the Kansan
Most days psychology students meander to the basement of Fraser Hall to scan "the board."
One student signs a tattered sheet for racial-prejudice research, another for word-recognition perceptions.
Desiree Lutjen, Independence,
Mo., freshman, selected an IQ test.
“On that test I learned a lot of things about the research process that I didn't know,” Lutjen, a PSYC General Psychology student, said. Research experiment helps me find out what psychology is all about.”
About 1,300 PSYC 104 students are required each semester to participate in psychology projects conducted by graduate students. The students have the option of participating in the experiments or writing a paper on the research process.
About 120 graduate students conduct from 30 to 50 experiments each semester and use the results for doctoral dissertations and possible publication in medical or psychological journals.
Gary McColloch, Lawrence graduate student, researched how people perceived nuclear war before
and after viewing the television movie "The Day After."
"Social psychology, by definition, is contingent on the ability to observe people," he said. "Research on fear perceptions showed me that you have to work with people to learn about people."
McCollough's results were presented at a convention of the American Psychological Association.
Dan Batson, professor of social psychology, said human subjects were vital to the research process.
"We see the students as collaborators in our research," Batson said. "Without them we would know a lot less about human behavior."
In McCollough's study of the movie "The Day After," subjects completed questionnaires nine weeks before the movie, two days before and then two months after its showing.
Among the questions were: "How much do you fear nuclear conflict?" and "If a full-scale nuclear conflict were to occur, how probable is it that you would survive?"
The study, McCollough said, concluded that the movie didn't change attitudes regarding nuclear war but that it reinforced existing attitudes.
McColough explained that people with anti-nuclear beliefs became more anti-nuclear after viewing the
Batson worked with Pat Schoenrade, Detroit graduate student, on a project that studied the link between religious activities and racial prejudices. The study, which was accepted for publication in "The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology," concluded that people with deeply rooted religious beliefs are more likely to exercise racial discrimination than those with weaker religious convictions.
"It would be impossible to do the amount and quality of research without the undergraduate research participation," she said.
Some students still wonder about the value of the information they provide.
Paula Perryman, Maui, Hawaii,
freshman, said, "I'm not sure that my participation will ever affect psychological research. I don't really make a very interesting subject. I had a happy childhood."
Schoenrade said she used PSYC 104 students for the majority of her research.
movie. Survivalists became more concerned with the country's capacity to endure the aftereffects of a nuclear exchange.
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