You are a student who has agreed to participate in a research project conducted by Muzafer Sherif in the 1930s. Which of the following would you probably be asked to do?

a) You would be asked to stick your hands into two buckets of water of different temperatures.
b) You would be asked to look at a point of light in a dark room.
c) You would be asked to watch as an adult plays aggressively with an inflatable clown toy.
d) You would be asked to judge the size of lines that were projected onto a screen.

ANS: B, Sherif used something called the autokinetic effect, or the perception of movement of a stationary light in a dark room, to assess the influence of group norms.