Sub tyles 3. In this study, a men\'s lavatory was set up so that confederates co
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Sub tyles 3. In this study, a men's lavatory was set up so that confederates could invade a participant's personal space. In the restroom, there were three urinals. In the close distance condition, a confederate appearing to urinate was stationed at the middle and a "Don't use" sign accompanied by a bucket and a sponge was placed on the rightmost urinal. In the moderate distance condition, the confederate stood at the ghtmost urinal and the bucket and sign were placed in front of the middle urinal. In the control condition, there was no confederate in the lavatory The researchers were interested in the time it took to initiate urination, as well as how long the participant The observer used a periscope embedded in some books on the floor to check on urination. The periscope allowed the observer to see the stream of urine The observer started two stopwatches when a participant stepped up to the urinal, stopped one when urination began, and stopped the other when urination was terminated ts would urinate: An observer was hidden in one of the toilet stalls. The results showed that when a contederate was close paropantstook longe to urmate onfederate was close time compared to participants in the other conditions Middlemist, R.D Knowies. E S&Matter;, c (1976, Personal space invasions in theExplanation / Answer
The potential ethical problem of this study is deception. Deception is used as the participants do not know that they are being studied, and that their private space has been invaded. This study would not have been approved by IRB, as the standard criteria for research it is necessary to obtain informed consent from the participants, and this experiment lacked it. Moreover, deception was used in the most private space of participants for study.