It is time for another joint blog post by Beth Morling and Jess Hartnett! It’s about a recently-published article that allows you to think about everything from the ethical use of AI to factorial ANOVA. The study investigated how people respond emotionally to online comments. Photo: fizkes/Shutterstock Part I: Student Learning Activity When we scroll …
Category: Complex Experiments (Factorial Designs)
Culture and the “marshmallow test”
Cultural practices around both snacks and gift-giving were proposed as one of the mechanisms behind this study's results. Photo credit: Prostock-studio/Shutterstock In a recent study, researcher Yuko Munakata tested the self-regulation and self-control abilities of children in two cultures: The U.S. and Japan. She published the research in the empirical journal Psychological Science, but also …
How we spot leadership potential in men and women
Which one of these people will benefit most from sharing good ideas with the group? Credit: Dean Drobot/Shutterstock Imagine you're working at a company and you'd like people to view you as a potential leader. How might you go about it? Perhaps you'd share your good ideas at meetings, hoping they'll notice your talent. Perhaps …
Continue reading How we spot leadership potential in men and women
Who benefits from putting the phone away?
Should she have put her phone away in the next room? That depends. Photo: Suwat Sirivutcharungchit/Shutterstock Students, if you're not familiar with the study tips on The Learning Scientists website, you should be. This page in particular sums up six evidence-based things you should be doing while you study (spoiler alert: The list does not …
Subtle social class cues on your resume
What resume cues did the researchers use to manipulate gender? Social class? Photo: Andrey Popov/Shutterstock The Harvard Business Review described a study that tested biases among people who read internship applications. Not just any internships, either: These are internships at prestigious law firms. The HBR reports that these internships.. ... open doors to even more lucrative …
Motivating students to work harder through teacher support
When teachers wrote encouraging notes (rather than neutral notes) on returned papers, students were motivated to revise them. Photo: Fuse/Getty Images How do we get students to work harder? Standards in schools may be rising, which means that students are more likely to encounter failures along the road to mastery of a subject. What motivates …
Continue reading Motivating students to work harder through teacher support
Going on an interview? Avoid the “vocal fry…”
You might not know the name "vocal fry," but if you've been on a college campus lately, you've definitely heard it: Vocal fry is a creaky, low sound that up to 2/3 of college women put at the end of sentences. A friend once called it the "sticky voice." The Atlantic just covered a research …
Continue reading Going on an interview? Avoid the “vocal fry…”
Eating more from big bowls….
It's not every day you get to see a three-way interaction described in the news! But here's one, a study covered by the Huffington Post. The headline was as follows: Extroverted Children More Likely To Be Swayed By Environmental Cues: Study Read this study description and identify the three independent variables in the design. Identify …
Bacon makes (almost) everything taste better…here’s the evidence
Wired magazine presents a set of datagraphics depicting their ingenious analysis of the corpus of recipes on the website foodnetwork.com. I bet you'll have fun looking through the graphics. They correlated the ingredients list in each recipe with the average number of five-star rating points the recipe has received from readers. For example, one …
Continue reading Bacon makes (almost) everything taste better…here’s the evidence
Targets of prejudice manage impressions
How would you respond if you knew that people might stereotype you negatively? That's what one study recently asked. They wondered how people would approach a social situation if they were worried about the stereotypes the other person might have about them. The studies in question can provide you with some handy practice on factorial designs. Scientific American wrote about …