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L'INFLUENCE DE L'ATTENTE DE L'EXPÉRIMENTATEUR APPLIQUÉE A UNE ÉTUDE SUR LTDENTITÉ NATIONALE EN OUGANDA
Author(s) -
Wober Mallory,
Cohen Emily
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207597208246706
Subject(s) - psychology , identity (music) , expectancy theory , humanities , social psychology , gender studies , sociology , art , aesthetics
An opportunity was taken of using Rosenthal's Experimenter‐Expectancy effect not only to demonstrate its existence in a new setting, but also to elucidate aspects of group identity among the Baganda of Uganda. Baganda secondary pupils were read four Hsts of identical numbers, merely reshuffled within each list, and asked to write them down and find an average for each. They were told the lists represented exam scores for students drawn respectively from Ankole, Buganda, Northerners and Uganda. The average calculated by Baganda pupils was lower when attributed to Northerners than when associated with the other groups. They did not attribute higher average marks to their own group than for the National group. It is recommended that the positive regard the Baganda may have for the concept Ugandans, be emphasised together with adding the idea that Northerners are also Ugandans.