In One of the First Social Psychological Experiments Ever Conducted

Multiple Choice

In one of the first social psychological experiments ever conducted, researcher Norman Triplett built a "competition machine," in which children wind up a fishing reel. He found that the children were able to wind more quickly when ____.

A) they worked as a group side by side than when they worked alone
B) they worked alone than when they worked as a group side by side
C) they were explicitly asked to work as fast as possible
D) they were explicitly asked to take their time to "get it right"