Instruction
Provide information about your materials and your procedure.
a. I have the following recommendations:
i. First, talk about the oral informed consent procedure. YOUR SHORT TITLE 4
ii. Second, talk about the three versions of the Facebook
Rudeness study questionnaire. Provide enough detail
including the scenario, differences among conditions, and
random assignment, so that your readers know how the
three conditions differ. I need to able to replicate your
design, so give me enough detail so I can do so.
iii. Third, talk about your dependent variables (that is, your
survey questions). For these dependent variables, once
again provide enough detail but do not copy every
question from the survey. You can talk about the
questions per their part. For example, “Part II in the
survey describes xxxxxx, including A, B, C, D as
questions”, etc., or “Participants provided their gender,
age, and race”. For dependent variables, tell me how the
responses were recorded (yes/no, true/false, a scale of -5
to 5, or 1 to 7, etc.). If you used a scale, note the
endpoints. That is, does a 1 mean it is high or is it low?
“Participants were asked, ‘How frustrating was this task?’,
and they responded on a scale from 1 (very) to 9 (not at
all).’”
iv. Fourth, make sure to highlight which specific DVs you
analyzed (for our Facebook Rudeness study, we focus on
Part V (manipulation check), Part II Q2-Polite person,
and Part III Q7-- Conversation). Notice that I restrict
the DVs for you as I fixed the hypothesis for you.
v. Finally, mention debriefing. Tell reader what was
debriefed to participants: general purpose, hypothesis, IV,
DV?
e. Remember, make sure that another researcher can replicate your study based on your
Method section. If they can’t, then you may not have enough detail!
3. Results Section: I expect the following format (15 points) ---hard to set page limit for this
section because you are strictly required to have 3 analyses.
a. The results are the hardest part of this paper, and your lab will help you with this part of
the paper. But this section is the most standardized part.
b. First, write Results at the top of this section, center it, and use boldface. This section
comes directly at the end of the Method section, so the results section DOES NOT start
on its own page.
c. For this assignment, include statistics about the most important variables in your study,
including your IV (Post condition – Rude Disagree, Polite Disagree, and Polite Agree)
and the DVs (here, I require Part V (manipulation check), Part II Q2-Polite person, and
Part III Q7-- Conversation.
d. For this paper, you must run at least three different analyses (that is, focus on three
different dependent variables). One must be a chi square for Part V, our manipulation
check. One must be a one-way ANOVA on Part II Q2-Polite person. The last one must
be one-way ANOVA on Part III Q7-- Conversation. Please note that if you run