You Are Interested in the Phenomenon of "Basking in Reflected

Essay

You are interested in the phenomenon of "basking in reflected glory," where people tend to affiliate themselves with successful others (e.g., wearing sports paraphernalia), without any personal connection to those successful others, in the hope that some of this success or others' positive attributions will "reflect onto them." Describe one way in which you could investigate this phenomenon with an extremely high degree of naturalness. Then, describe one way in which you could investigate this phenomenon with a very low degree of naturalness. How would they differ? In your response, be sure to indicate (a) the different features of a study that determine the extent to which it is considered "natural," (b) how those features would be manifested in studies of high and low naturalness, and (c) the specific ways in which you would alter those features for your specific examples to obtain high and low naturalness.