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hi before I read off the slides, I just wanted to show my face um the way you knew,

kind of like who's reading to you

Um my name is Jennifer Nolasco,

I am in your social psychology class and I

did finish refining this presentation on April 2,

2022.

So the title of my article was Good lamps are the best police.

Darkness increases dishonesty and self interested behavior.

Now the reason that I brought this up is because

although this is a great title to summarize the article,

I think it's also kind of borderline um

misleading in a way because in this title

it just

basically just takes its darkness itself

um and later on, you know, I can explain to you like it's not darkness itself.

So the gold slash hypothesis that I would say um from the article

was getting to know if any hint of dimming could impact how ethical a person could be.

Now

this is what I said, the hypothesis was,

but just to clarify my definition of dimming

is any type of darkness placed upon light.

Um and the reason for that is because of the experiments that I read about,

one of them was dimming of light, but one of them

um included sunglasses and then although that is not giving off light, it did

dim light because of the sunglasses and how dark they are.

So like I was saying

um darkness itself

is not

what cost

the

the illusory and non image,

sorry you have trouble reading that word,

but it was the experience of being in the dark and non darkness itself.

And I feel like that is kind of hard to grasp because I did have to read

the article 2 to 3 times because I did kind of believe it was darkness itself.

But no, it's the experience of being in the dark,

if that makes any sense.

So through that experience of darkness,

it makes people believe that their identity is

hidden and it leads to unethical acts,

because it causes that psychological feeling of illusory anonymity.

Um I believe that's how I've been seeing it in my mind.

Um I'm sorry if I am pronouncing it wrong ahead of time.

Um But yes, that um it makes you feel like you're kind of like invincible in a way,

like a superman kind of with the dimming of light,

although there were various quotes from different

psychologists and people encompassed in the similar

um research of darkness and that anonymous feeling,

One that stood out to me was Zimbardo and how he did study and how he said,

people in hoods and baggy clothing

um did longer shocks than the regular clothes participants.

So the reason that this stood out,

even though it has nothing to do with the experiment,

well it has something to it it is similar, right?

It is studying the anonymous right part of it,

but although there was no shocking part to the experiment,

I thought it was interesting because even though it was baggy clothing or hoods,

it still gave people that hint of like

darkness or maybe that comfort and that's what led to that

and this is kind of an image of what he looked like. Um

it's not really important but just like I threw out a name out there,

I wanted you to kind of see who it was, who I was talking about.

So for the methods um although it was two out of three that were computer generated,

I would say, since that is

the majority, I kind of like generalized it,

but it was computer generated to preserve the anonymous.

So

I feel like

like this is something people could read and like not pay attention to,

but I do feel like

this was a strong thing mentioned because it's kind of

connected even though it's not really part of it,

it is kind of connected.

Um with like it's very important that it's

computer generated because there's no person there to look

at you to make you feel human to see you and like to see you as a person

since it is computer generated,

I think it's very like linked to like how we have nowadays trolls on

the internet and how they are trolls because they can hide behind the screen.

And I thought that was something that could also be looked into

um because you know,

even though it was two out of three wasn't all of them

computer generated anonymous feelings I think are very much stronger and maybe in

the future they could replicate that of being there in person with

other people explain to you the

instructions versus that computer generated anonymous.

And to go along with those methods of computer generated. Um

But it was also interesting that in

their methods they used samples from universities.

Um author experiments were students

um in the university that they got to experiment with.

Um So I just feel like it is

also interesting because back to that computer generated,

I would say at least 90% of

people in universities are computer or technology literate

or technology caught up in a way.

So um it's really interested because the computer generated

comic goes with that

convenience of getting the samples from the university.

Another method was how they dimmed the lights themselves

um For that first experiment and then the shades,

the sunglasses, the shades that they use for the other two experiments.

Um

which is pretty good and this was only for the control groups.

This wasn't for the um other,

this is like what they were using to compare

um for the cheating and self interested behaviors.

Um

The methods were, in my opinion they were saying and ethical. Um

I am now taking a class

and I kind of know about the psychological like ethical standards

and I believe that the three experience that they did do

didn't go against anything to do with those

ethical behaviors that they're supposed to follow.

So that's why I included that they were saying and ethical

um to add on to that all through experiments indicated that dimming

light and or wearing shades resulted in self interested and cheating behaviors.

Um and although I would say it was because of the monetary um like I explained later on

um the hypothesis um

did match up with the results,

which was a great thing I would say um when it comes to doing these experiments

and through that um we also learned that that sense

of concealment that's because people when darkness is presented.

And so that goes back to my point of it's not darkness itself,

it's the experience of being in the dark.

And so some key found key findings that I did find um while reading the

article and analyzing it and writing about

it is that the experience was successful.

Which isn't that significant because even

though your experience aren't successful,

you can learn and tweak your hypothesis.

But I thought it was really interesting that it was successful

because they were like kind of doing a reputation but I kind of like their own spin,

they're trying to be more specific about it.

So I think that's the key thing.

Um

additionally

it was significant because

um like I said when they were doing the experiment, I kind of piggybacked off of um

other psychologists experiments and they helped to identify any

type of dimming whether it was a room dim

like actual light them or the sunglasses created that

anonymous feeling that lead to unethical behavior for.

So for example um

like that hood

um it wasn't like just the hood itself

or like the clothing baggy clothing that's hood.

It's not just the clothing that made people behave unethical.

Now this experiment is bringing in that any type of Demi whether it's like

the sunglasses that you put on yourself or for example,

let's say that you're walking on the sunlight.

You go buy some shade like a tree some shade like

that could because your experience being in the dark that could create

um leading to unethical behavior.

Um You could probably apply these findings to real life with work situations,

personal situations and even at the government level.

And I say this because

um you know at the work level like maybe if

you're giving a survey to employees about work conditions,

you might want to do it in a well lit room versus a dim room.

Personal situations that say you're trying to talk to somebody,

you want them to be honest.

You don't want to meet them too early in the day or two late at night.

You maybe want to meet them at news for lunch to get

all of the truth out of them at the government level.

Like for example,

maybe court should be welded or maybe the police shouldn't like

if they're trying to get the truth out of a criminal,

maybe they should wait until the next day or

it's well lit room or something of the sort

some limitations that I did find.

We're like the age sample size and or grouping and the economical standing.

Um,

the average for most of them were people in their twenties and for the sample size,

these were all people in their 20's.

Additionally they were just university students.

So even though these experiments were,

You know, successful,

they were just for university students in their 20s as an average.

Um, and so that brings me to the point of economic standing.

Most of these kids are more than likely.

So for the exam, for example, the experience that dealt with like the monetary one,

it's like,

I mean, yeah, they might be more dishonest because they probably need,

maybe you don't know what that college students going through, right?

So they might take a dollar or two more than like

maybe like a 30 year old person that's already more,

you know, comfortable in their life might

and

and through that I would add a demographic

and or socioeconomic questionnaire at the beginning.

Um Just I said in the beginning because

of the computer generated for the two experiments,

it doesn't have to be in the beginning,

but it would be more convenient in the beginning since it is computer generated.

I think this information would be more useful than we

think in reshaping relationships and helping in the work,

legal, and our military area.

Um, like I said,

those examples with your personal life will be like the courtroom being lit up more,

um, maybe from the military and you're trying to question somebody.

That's the way they're in your territory.

You might want to do that in a world lit room or during the day.

But yes,

this is a consensus of what I learned and what I

wrote about in my opinion on the article and the results.

So thank you for watching and listening to me. I did appreciate it.

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