Kevin Betts Approaches Of Rejection In Human Nature

Stage 1: Rejection in Human Nature It is human nature to have a fear of rejection. Consequently, humans want to be liked and accepted. Kevin Betts’ experiment on the different approaches of rejection shows just that. He performed an experiment that included a group of three participants. They were to play a game that could only be won if two of the three people teamed up and left the other out. There are two claims made by this article. First, that when others form a team and the third is not included, it is very likely the third person will feel rejected. Additionally, he suggested that others will quickly exclude others to allow themselves to get ahead. Through this experiment, Betts was able to suggest that when others form a team
There are weaknesses to every kind of research method. For example, in a correlational study, it is hard not to suggest that correlation and causation go hand in hand. This particular used a mixture of two research methods, descriptive and correlational. It was descriptive because the participants were put in a situation and observed. However, they were also put in a natural situation of a game that allowed for the experiment to assume the data received was correlational. The participants were allowed to form teams and when this happened, the third person felt left out. This is a correlation because it allows the researchers to examine how being excluded can lead to other feelings of rejection. Combining the two research methods, Betts was able to examine a wider range of data then if it was just one or the other. By doing this, he was able to provide a more credible claim that had more
Confounding variables are different variables in the experiment that were not controlled and changed the result of the experiment. These variables should be controlled in an experiment at all costs to avoid a false result. A possible confounding variable in this experiment could be the gender of the participants in a group. If there are two males and one female, the males might have a greater chance of forming a team. Another confounding variable could be the state of the individual going into the experiment. If the participant already struggled with feelings of rejection and depression, this could produce a more extreme reaction. However, if there is a large sample size, the confounding variables and extreme effects should balance out. The fact that humans feel rejected when they are excluded from a group is a natural occurring feeling. It will occur no matter what confounding variable there are. Based on this decision, this is a credible