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Analyzing/Reporting On Counterfactual Data

*Assignment is due Monday October 5th by 10:00 PM EASTERN TIME***

The methods/results paper will be based on a short survey study of Counterfactual Thinking, or “If only” statements we often make to mentally undo an outcome. Students will view the reported data on SPSS, analyze the data, and write a paper that incorporates a title page, methods section and results section for the study.

You will need to login to SPSS to view and report the data collected from this study.

This is the website to use: https://elabs.fiu.edu/Citrix/eLabsWeb/

I will give you the login information once a handshake has been created.

Please view the attatched links. If you have trouble opening ELabs (also known as SPSS) I have attatched a helpful step by step guide to assist you. Another link is instructions for how to properly format the paper (APA) and the other is an example paper for you to reference while writing this one. There is also an attatched word document with the frequencies of the participants that you will need to view as well.

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Decision Making: An Individual and Socially Influenced Process

John Doe

Florida International University

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:40 PM Comment [1]: Note the running head up here. The correct APA format is Running head: TITLE. Thus make sure to capitalize the R, have a lower case h, and then your short title all in CAPS (a short title should be no more than 50 characters). This title page also starts on page one, and the page number is flush to the right while the running head is flush to the left

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 8:17 PM Comment [2]: Do you know how to enter a header? Click on the “Insert” menu at the top of word, click on “Header”, and then type in the header whatever you want. There is even a box that you can check that allows you to have a different header on the first page than subsequent pages.

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:42 PM Comment [3]: Note the title here as well. It is descriptive of the paper to come, and falls within the 12 words recommended by the APA. The first letter of all words over 4 letters is capitalized (although “An” is also capitalized since it follows the colon)

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:42 PM Comment [4]: Your name goes here

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:42 PM Comment [5]: Your university affiliation goes here

Ryan Winter� 11/20/2013 4:32 PM Comment [6]: Note that this example paper is on a different topic than your experiment. It still follows the same guidelines as your assignment, though, so this is a good template to mimic as you write your own paper.

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Method

Participants

Five hundred and sixty one students from a large metropolitan university in the

southeastern U.S. participated in the experimental study. Three hundred and five participants

were female (54.4%) and 256 were male (45.6%). They ranged in age from 18 to 45, with a

mean age of 22 (SD = 3.44). This included 256 Hispanic participants (45%), 223 Caucasian

participants (40%), 23 African American participants (4%), and 11 Asian participants (2%). The

remaining 48 participants did not report their ethnicity (9%).

Materials and Procedure

In order to test for conformity, students in the research methods class at FIU gathered

information based on the amount of money participants spent on textbooks. After hearing some

initial information about what the study entailed (filling out a survey), participants who

consented to be in the study were handed a “Book Survey”. They received one of three versions

of this survey: high, low, or neutral. All surveys contained 20 slots and asked participants to

provide their name, their age, and the amount of money they remembered spending on books two

semesters prior (“How much did you spend on textbooks during the spring semester, 2012”). On

the bottom of each survey was either an “H”, “L”, or “N”. Participants given the “H” version

were in the high condition. On this survey, the first 10 participant slots were already filled

(ostensibly by other participants, though the researchers had actually filled them out). These

artificial book values from imaginary participants fell within a high range between $500 and

$600. If participants did not recall how much they spent on books, we expected them to refer to

those ten prior responses and anchor their own response in accordance with the prior students.

For those in the “L” version, they received a book survey were the first ten slots had low ranges

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:55 PM Comment [7]: The word Method here is centered and bolded, as is recommended by the APA

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:55 PM Comment [8]: Participant (also bolded) is flush left

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:55 PM Comment [9]: When a number starts a sentence, spell out the number

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:56 PM Comment [10]: You see the mean and standard deviation here, which is helpful for knowing about the makeup of the sample.

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 7:58 PM Comment [11]: Also bolded and flush left. You will notice that this author combined materials and procedures, which was good for this simple study. He could have separated them, though, and talked about the book survey separately in a “materials” section and the procedure separately in the “procedure” section. I like this choice, though, for this design.

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 8:00 PM Comment [12]: Notice how thorough the description is here. If you wanted to replicate this study, you would know exactly what to do because the author tells you exactly what he did. Make sure the description of your IV is equally clear.

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from $150 and $250. Once again, the researchers completed these blanks before getting the

participants’ to complete the survey. Finally, the book survey for those in the neutral condition

(“N”) did not have any slots filled with predetermined values. Using this Book Survey set up,

researchers approached participants at FIU and had them complete the surveys. The independent

variable, therefore, was whether or not participants were in the high, low or neutral condition

while the dependent variable was participant responses regarding the amount of money they

spent on books (this question was open-ended, and thus it could range from $0 to an infinite

amount of money). We timed how long it took participants to complete the survey and included

this as a second dependent variable in the study design. Our main hypothesis was that

participants would recall spending more on their own textbooks when they viewed a survey in

which prior survey participants recalled spending a lot on books compared a little on books, with

our “no exposure to prior participants” condition falling between these two extremes. We also

predicted that participants would take longer to complete the survey when there were no prior

participants on the survey compared to when there prior names on the survey (high or low).

Results

We ran a one-way ANOVA with condition as the independent variable and the amount of

money participants recalled spending on the books in the fall of 2011 as a dependent variable.

There was a main effect for condition, F(2, 561) = 33.03, p < .05. A significant Tukey post hoc

test showed that participants recalled spending more money in the high condition (M = $373, SD

= $24.06) and neutral conditions (M = $352, SD = $67.87) than in the low condition (M = $249,

SD = $45.54), but there was no significant difference between the high and neutral conditions,

confirming our first hypothesis. Apparently, participants do tend to use data from other people as

a source of information.

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 8:00 PM Comment [13]: You can see his procedure, right! Very clear

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 8:01 PM Comment [14]: Noting the IV helps a lot. You can tell the author knows what his IV is. There is only one, with three levels.

Ryan Winter� 1/3/2013 1:37 PM Comment [15]: You also know what his DV is, and you know the range for his scale (In this case, it could be $0, but the upper range could be anything (although anything above $1000 would be suspicious, right?)

Ryan Winter� 7/21/2014 2:59 PM Comment [16]: Personally, I think this study is a little easier than your study to describe, and it still took over a page and a half. Make sure you have enough detail to convey exactly what you did and how you did it!

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 8:03 PM Comment [17]: Results is centered and bold

Ryan Winter� 11/28/2012 8:05 PM Comment [18]: As you can see, I am not looking for a lot in the results section, which means that the data that is needed must be present. This is a good format for the results, because you know what the IV is, what the DV is, and you see the F test for the one way ANOVA. It also provides the means and standard deviation. Although it gives a little info on the discussion, it does not go into a lot of detail on the discussion. That comes next.

Ryan Winter� 11/20/2013 5:00 PM Comment [19]: A discussion section is not required in this paper, so I would like for you to draw a short conclusion for each data analysis. Did the results confirm your predictions? If yes, how?

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Due to problems in timing how long it took participants to complete the survey in the low

condition, our second analysis focused only on participants in the high money condition and the

no prior participant information condition. We ran a t-Test with the high versus absent conditions

as our independent variable and the amount of time in seconds it took for participants to

complete the survey as the dependent variable. As predicted, participants spent significantly

more time answering the survey question when there were no prior participants (M = 6.7

seconds, SD = 2.1 seconds) than when there were prior participants who recalled spending a lot

of money on textbooks (M = 3.2 seconds, SD = 1.1 seconds), t(379) = 6.78, p < .001. A

reasonable explanation for this finding is that it takes longer to recall the amount participants

spent on books when they do not have examples from prior participants to look at. Ryan Winter� 11/20/2013 4:59 PM Comment [20]: In this second analysis, you can see that the author ran a t-Test rather than an ANOVA. This was necessary because he only analyzed two groups: the “high” condition and the “no prior participant” condition. Remember to use a t-Test for two group designs and an ANOVA when you have more than two groups For your study, I recommend doing two ANOVAs. This last test is just to show you how it might look if you ran a t-Test