Procedure

• What did Johnson and Scott (76) research?

  The negative effect of anxiety
• Where did the Ps sit and believe?

  They sat in a waiting room believing they were going to take part in a lab study
• What did each P hear?


  A argument in the next room
• How many conditions were there?

  2
• What was the low-anxiety condition?

  A man walked through the waiting room carrying a pen with grease on his hands
• What was in the high anxiety condition?

  The heated argument was accompanied by the sound of breaking glass

  A man then walked through the room holding a paper knife covered in blood
• What were the Ps then asked to do?

  Pick the man from a set of 50 photographs