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Door Holding Behavior
I was interested in investigating if there was a gender difference in the helping behavior of door holding. I operant defined door holding behavior as opening the door and holding it for the person behind the door holder. I observed from the third floor study area of the Business building by the bridge to the Humanities and Social Sciences buildings on November 27th and 29th from 12 to 1pm. The observed consisted of UTSA students and staff that ranged from approximately 18 to mid fifties.
On November 27th twenty eight people were observed in a one hour that completed door holding behavior. Out of the twenty eight people observed completing the behavior fifteen of them were female, since that is only half the first days observations were not very conclusive. I also noticed that I include people who appeared to be in groups in my observations as singular accounts. I should have counted groups as a different category, because door holding in a group......

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