Does misery love company?
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When you are feeling anxious do you prefer to have people around you? Or do you prefer to be left alone?
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Depends on what I'm anxious over...?
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my version of misery loves company is that when i m feeling misrable, i will want the people around me to feel down as well.i will spread my misery around!!!!
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According to social psychologist Stanley Schachter (1959), increase in anxiety would cause increases in the desire to be with others i.e. the need for affiliation.
In his experiment the participants were told that they would be participating in a study on the physiological effects of electric shock and they were be at the receiving end.
However half of them were warned that the shock would be very painful i.e. the high-anxiety group while the other half were told that the shocks would be mild or even painless i.e. the low-anxiety group.
In reality, no one was going to receive any shock at all.
While waiting for the experimenter to prepare the shock apparatus, the participants were asked if they would rather to wait alone or in the company of others.
Result: The percentage of people who wanted to wait with other was nearly twice as high in the high-anxiety group than the low-anxiety group. Increased anxiety usually led to increased affiliation.
Schachter, S. (1959). The psychology of affiliation. Stanford, CA: Standard University Press.
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Maybe waiting to enter the Exam Hall for your final year exam?Originally posted by Devil1976:Depends on what I'm anxious over...? -
Originally posted by ratinacage:my version of misery loves company is that when i m feeling misrable, i will want the people around me to feel down as well.i will spread my misery around!!!!
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How BIG was the SAMPLE for the above?Originally posted by DeadPoet:Maybe waiting to enter the Exam Hall for your final year exam?
I think nowadays there seems to be more and more 'social people'...? People who mix around with others...
When I VERY ANXIOUS over VERY PERSONAL things then I'll wish to be ALONE and THINKING....
THEN AGAIN, I'm hardly anxious over most things nowadays...
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Good point. Beside, check out the dateOriginally posted by Devil1976:How BIG was the SAMPLE for the above?
I think nowadays there seems to be more and more 'social people'...? People who mix around with others...
When I VERY ANXIOUS over VERY PERSONAL things then I'll wish to be ALONE and THINKING....
THEN AGAIN, I'm hardly anxious over most things nowadays... 
1959.
That was 45years ago!!!!
Never take things for granted. Hey you can be a good psychology student!
That is why we said that the results of any psychology studies/researches/experiments are usually valid and confine to a particular society/culture/time. -
i prefer to hang ard ppl.... but depending on the matter of anxiety and the ppl i'm with, i may or not even bring up the matter.
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Depends on who are the people around me...I wun wanna someone who only add to my troubles..