Laboratory emergency experiments lack real threats and so offer low ecological validity.
Evidence
While there is a history of social psychology studies of escape behaviours using laboratory methods (e.g., Chertkoļ¬, Kushigian, & McCool, 1996; Gross, Kelley, Kruglanski, & Patch, 1972; Mintz, 1951), some of these were conducted at a time when ethics committees had less sway, and therefore real threats (of pain) could easily be included in the design to add realism (e.g., Kelley, Condrey, Dahlke, & Hill, 1965; Klein, 1976). Our own designs did not include any threats (real or bogus), and so lack the key element that deļ¬nes an emergency and which can be expected to impact on helping behaviour. The low ecological validity of the design therefore meant that real-world studies were also necessary. ā John Drury, The role of social identity processesā¦, 58
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the general critique of artificial emergency paradigms and the push toward field and archival methods in social psychology. ā connects to: Laboratory experiments cannot produce many real-world aggressive behaviors ā Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harmā¦, 719; Laboratory experiments fail to capture the long time horizons of real cooperation. ā Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperativeā¦, 550; Laboratory evacuation experiments lack the fear defining real emergencies. ā John Drury, The role of social identity processesā¦, 58
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did experimental ethics constraints reshape the whole emergency-behaviour research programme?
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim ā John Drury, The role of social identity processesā¦, 58
Related
- Laboratory evacuation experiments lack the fear defining real emergencies. (similarity 0.92)
- Laboratory experiments cannot produce many real-world aggressive behaviors (similarity 0.85)
- Laboratory experiments fail to capture the long time horizons of real cooperation. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Laboratory experiments cannot produce many real-world aggressive behaviors
#expands(0.85) ā Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 719 - Laboratory experiments fail to capture the long time horizons of real cooperation.
#expands(0.75) ā Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperativeā¦, 550