RE:[tips] Spot the confounds
I would think it would be fairly easy to put together a video presentation using the same person - in the three conditions that Mike describes and then you could also vary the position of the three twins. Robin Robin Musselman, EdD Professor Lehigh Carbon Community College Schnecksville, PA 18078 phone: 610-799-1531 email: rmussel...@lccc.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37259 or send a blank email to leave-37259-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Spot the confounds
I noticed also that people were milling around while the subject made public choices!? Demand character can be added to issues to discuss if showing this in class. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Jun 24, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Musselman, Robin rmussel...@lccc.edu wro I would think it would be fairly easy to put together a video presentation using the same person - in the three conditions that Mike describes and then you could also vary the position of the three twins. Robin Robin Musselman, EdD Professor Lehigh Carbon Community College Schnecksville, PA 18078 phone: 610-799-1531 email: rmussel...@lccc.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=37259 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-37259-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37260 or send a blank email to leave-37260-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Spot the confounds
I saw this video on FB, http://www.lifebuzz.com/chewing-gum/#!2ytsL, which portrays an 'experiment' in which one member of a set of twins chewed gum and viewers rated both twins on a variety of traits and characteristics. I thought the video might be useful for teaching about confounds, balancing conditions, etc. Miguel --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37236 or send a blank email to leave-37236-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re: [tips] Spot the confounds
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:13:28 -0700, Miguel Roig wrote: I saw this video on FB, http://www.lifebuzz.com/chewing-gum/#!2ytsL , which portrays an 'experiment' in which one member of a set of twins chewed gum and viewers rated both twins on a variety of traits and characteristics. I thought the video might be useful for teaching about confounds, balancing conditions, etc. One obvious problem is the control condition used. Instead of thinking of the manipulation as being chewing gum vs not chewing gum consider animacy/activity vs inactivity. Assuming that people are more sensitive to animacy/activity than inactivity and that people may associate a more positive response to activity, then the results are not surprising. If I remember correctly, sentences with active agents (animacy) are processed differently from sentences where the agents in the sentence are not engaged in obvious activity. In any event, I think the more proper control is to have the other twin doing something with their face, say, making positive faces (smiling), negative faces (frowns), and neutral (expressionless like the controls in the video). So, if we can get triplets, we can have three conditions: (1) chewing gum (2) neutral (no facial movement) (2) different emotional expression Anybody want to write a grant proposal? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37238 or send a blank email to leave-37238-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Spot the confounds
Thanks Miguel and Mike. Sure is a cluttered page, but it might indeed be useful to help students understand confounds and other control issues. I still find many of our senior psych students consider any bias or control problem as a confound, and I am always looking for ways to help them differentiate these problems. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Jun 23, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 06:13:28 -0700, Miguel Roig wrote: I saw this video on FB, http://www.lifebuzz.com/chewing-gum/#!2ytsL , which portrays an 'experiment' in which one member of a set of twins chewed gum and viewers rated both twins on a variety of traits and characteristics. I thought the video might be useful for teaching about confounds, balancing conditions, etc. One obvious problem is the control condition used. Instead of thinking of the manipulation as being chewing gum vs not chewing gum consider animacy/activity vs inactivity. Assuming that people are more sensitive to animacy/activity than inactivity and that people may associate a more positive response to activity, then the results are not surprising. If I remember correctly, sentences with active agents (animacy) are processed differently from sentences where the agents in the sentence are not engaged in obvious activity. In any event, I think the more proper control is to have the other twin doing something with their face, say, making positive faces (smiling), negative faces (frowns), and neutral (expressionless like the controls in the video). So, if we can get triplets, we can have three conditions: (1) chewing gum (2) neutral (no facial movement) (2) different emotional expression Anybody want to write a grant proposal? ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=37238 or send a blank email to leave-37238-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37243 or send a blank email to leave-37243-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Spot the confounds
With regards to the twins and gum chewing, I agree that animacy/stasis is a big factor. The one not chewing gum often looks like a zombie. Another, probably smaller factor: the one chewing gum is always on the right. I would expect a right/left bias of some sort to be in play here. Celia - Celia Reaves, PhD Department of Psychology Monroe Community College 1000 East Henrietta Road Rochester, NY. 14623 (585) 292-3258 crea...@monroecc.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37244 or send a blank email to leave-37244-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Spot the confounds
Good one Celia for catching the left/right bias! Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt On Jun 23, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Reaves, Celia (Psychology) crea...@monroecc.edu wrote: With regards to the twins and gum chewing, I agree that animacy/stasis is a big factor. The one not chewing gum often looks like a zombie. Another, probably smaller factor: the one chewing gum is always on the right. I would expect a right/left bias of some sort to be in play here. Celia - Celia Reaves, PhD Department of Psychology Monroe Community College 1000 East Henrietta Road Rochester, NY. 14623 (585) 292-3258 crea...@monroecc.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69n=Tl=tipso=37244 or send a blank email to leave-37244-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=37245 or send a blank email to leave-37245-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
