Case study

1) In this study, the researchers manipulated the participant’s knowing of

social exclusion by giving them with negative feedback or positive
feedback after completing a personality test. The researchers controlled
the experiment of participants to the two conditions (social exclusion
and social inclusion) randomly, ensuring that any differences in prosocial
behavior can be caused to the control of social exclusion
2) It is that feeling excluded would make people less likely to help others. It
suggests that there is a relationship between feeling excluded and not
helping others.
3) The aim of the research study is to investigate how feeling excluded
affects people's behavior towards others.
4) The independent variable in this experiment is the condition to which
participants were assigned: exclusion or inclusion. It was measured by
giving participants either negative or positive feedback on their
personality test.