...[staring at the participant] would cause the person just with me anxiety. It’s always being the person it just kept it consistent, because if you had two really high anxious people, both be laughing or whatever. Um, so yeah, I they’d found excuses why not to feel bad. Excuses helped Sarah Smith feel better about increasing anxiety levels in already socially anxious participants. Her excuses included recalling that participants entered the laboratory with preexisting anxiety. This helped her feel less responsible for their anxiety, resulting in less negative feelings for her. She explained this naturally anxious people. saying, “They’re We knew that with them coming in, uh, so that would help, kind of taking the blame off of me and put it on the situation.” Pants had been involved in negotiating with participants. Her role required her to respond either happily or angrily towards offers during negotiations. Pants participants’ described how she deliberately ignored the reactions because their reactions participants’ made it difficult for her to perform her role: during the study [participants would] be like, like, …sometimes ‘okay, relax, just an experiment. And then be like or it’s you’d ‘whatever!’ ‘you suck’ [sarcastically] or have to kind of brush it off and still not laugh at whatever. I’d myself because it was absurd what I was doing. Sometimes Pants felt that her responses were unjustified given the offers participants were giving during negotiations. This led to need to ignore reactions while Pants’ participants’ trying to enact her role. Jake talked about a poor initial experience that made him decide to meet with participants: I felt really bad about that first experience. So, needless to say, for the next little while, I was very, um, very nervous about doing the study. Um, I didn’t really want to do it, but I knew I had to be very careful. And I decided then,
...[staring at the participant] would cause the person anxiety. It’s just with me always being the person it just kept it consistent, because if you had two really high anxious people, they’d both be laughing or whatever. Um, so yeah, I found excuses why not to feel bad. Excuses helped Sarah Smith feel better about increasing anxiety levels in already socially anxious participants. Her excuses included recalling that participants entered the laboratory with preexisting anxiety. This helped her feel less responsible for their anxiety, resulting in less negative feelings for her. She explained this saying, “They’re naturally anxious people. We knew that with them coming in, uh, so that would help, kind of taking the blame off of me and put it on the situation.” Pants had been involved in negotiating with participants. Her role required her to respond either happily or angrily towards participants’ offers during negotiations. Pants described how she deliberately ignored the participants’ reactions because their reactions made it difficult for her to perform her role: …sometimes during the study [participants would] be like, ‘okay, relax, like, it’s just an experiment. And then you’d be like ‘whatever!’ or ‘you suck’ [sarcastically] or whatever. I’d have to kind of brush it off and still not laugh at myself because it was absurd what I was doing. Sometimes Pants felt that her responses were unjustified given the offers participants were giving during negotiations. This led to Pants’ need to ignore participants’ reactions while trying to enact her role. Jake talked about a poor initial experience that made him decide to meet with participants: I felt really bad about that first experience. So, needless to say, for the next little while, I was very, um, very nervous about doing the study. Um, I didn’t really want to do it, but I knew I had to be very careful. And I decided then,
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