I seem to understand participants didn't met each other but were just given things to read. If that's correct, the experiment itself is flawed because it takes out an important information: what the other person looks like.
Our intelligence is very visual, and that includes social relationships, for example we build trust on similarities: the more you look and behave like me, the more I'm prone to trust you (that also partially explains race-based distrust). I guess the numbers would be quite different if people actually met each other.
[–] Wedhro ago
I seem to understand participants didn't met each other but were just given things to read. If that's correct, the experiment itself is flawed because it takes out an important information: what the other person looks like.
Our intelligence is very visual, and that includes social relationships, for example we build trust on similarities: the more you look and behave like me, the more I'm prone to trust you (that also partially explains race-based distrust). I guess the numbers would be quite different if people actually met each other.