• Question: What is your first experiment

    Asked by anon-233853 to Phill, Liam, Kohinoor, Karolina, Jack, Debbie on 15 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-233857, anon-233852, anon-233838.
    • Photo: Debbie Kinsey

      Debbie Kinsey answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      I think my first psychology experiment was one I had to do near the start of university. I had to ask children of different ages to draw houses with chimneys, and it was about how the way you see things and draw things changes as you get older.
      (As far as I remember, very young children drew houses with chimneys pointing out to the side, whereas older children draw them more going straight up. But it’s been a while!)

    • Photo: Jack Joyce

      Jack Joyce answered on 15 Nov 2019:

      In my area of psychology we don’t really do experiments — in fact, I’ve never had to do any experiments during my time as a scientist!

    • Photo: Liam Wignall

      Liam Wignall answered on 16 Nov 2019:

      I don’t really do experiments as we typically think of them. My first research project was looking at how students use social media platforms in educational environments.

    • Photo: Karolina Urbanska

      Karolina Urbanska answered on 20 Nov 2019:

      In the first experiment I ever conducted we made people to think about a nostalgic moment to induce feelings of nostalgia. The point of the experiment was to test whether making people feel nostalgic would make them less prejudiced towards certain social groups such as overweight people or older adults.

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