Studying frustration A psychologist wants to study the effects of failure and frustration on the

relationships among members of a work team. She forms a team of students, brings them to the

psychology lab, and has them play a game that requires teamwork. The game is rigged so that they lose regularly. The psychologist observes the students through a one-way window and notes the changes in their behavior during an evening of game playing. Can the psychologist generalize the results of her study to a team of employees that spends months developing a new product that never works right and is finally abandoned by their company? Explain.

A psychologist wants to investigate the consequences of failure and dissatisfaction on work team relationships. She gathers a group of students, takes them to the psychology lab, and has them play a cooperative game.

Individuals are purposely subjected to a treatment in order to measure their responses in an experiment.

The psychologists want to apply the study's findings to a group of employees in this question. However, the study recruited students as participants, and students may react to loss differently than employees. Furthermore, a game is not actually symbolic of a work project because losing a game has no substantial negative implications on an individual's life, whereas a failing work project can have major negative consequences. As a result, we can conclude that the findings cannot be applied to employees.