Talk:Audience effect

Critique for Psych 101

By saying audience effect, im assuming that this user meant social psychology. Since they didnt specify anything about the subject, let me explain a bit. Social pyschology is one that has been studied many times before, one example would be the Stanford Prison Experiment. Basically, it shows that if you tell someone to do something, they are more likely to do it. They teach cpr students to tell someone to call 911 in an emergency. because if you dont tell someone specifically, it is less likely to get done.^[1] BDrum (talk) 05:06, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Psych 101: article critique

The aritcle is worded in a way that makes the topic unclear. Instead of saying audience effect, they could have said "effect of audiences". This would have made it clear that the writer was trying to discuss how different types of audiences are helpful in different situations. By changing the word choice and expanding onto the idea of audiences being either passive or assertive, this article could be greatly improved. Nicolebogue12 (talk) 02:59, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Copy and paste

Have reverted edits in question as they appear to be mostly copy and pastes from the sources in question.

In this set of edits [2]. This text "Psychological systems should be designed to increase punishment" is exactly as it is in this source[3] as is this text " that if the audience was a female, males increased the intensity of conspicuous displays that can be used in communication with both males and females and decreased highly aggressive displays that are solely directed to males. If the audience was a male of similar size, there was no significant change in the way in which males displayed. These results suggest the presence of an audience could be one reason that many long-range and conspicuous signals are often shaped to transmit information to both males and females" to this source [4]. Editor in question is more or less copied in part of the abstract. This bit is word for word the same as the source "Male budgerigars,Melopsittacus undulatus, socially monogamous birds, actively pursue extra-pair copulations while breeding in captive flocks. Males are significantly more likely to engage in extra-pair activity when their mates"[5]

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 16:56, 30 March 2013 (UTC)