dear prof, I want to test whether public exposure (IV2) to norm violations and relations with perpetrators (IV 1) of norm violations have an effect on observer vicarious embarrassment (VE). So there are two factors that cause VE, namely public exposure and relations with perpetrators of norm violations. Public exposure has two levels, namely (a) there is exposure and (b) there is no exposure/quiet. Level relationships: (a) Friends and (b) strangers. I'm planning to use a vignette to get the VE data. My question is: 1). Should the vignette show two directly interacting variables such as: "My friend (IV2) spoke loudly in the library and was seen by many people (IV1), how embarrassed are you for her actions?" or 2) vignette only contains information for each level independently. Examples in friendship relationships: My friend (IV1) spoke loudly in the library, how embarrassed are you for what he did?, Someone you don't know (IV1) spoke loudly in the library how embarrassed were you for what he did? I think that to get the main effect, the simulation is carried out per level, and then a statistical test of the interaction between IV1 and IV2 is carried out. Meanwhile, if the vignette contains two IVs that interact directly with each other, such as (friends x public exposure), (foreigners x public exposure), then this has directly tested the interaction effect so that the main effect for each IV is not obtained. Is my thinking correct? The analysis is repeated measures for 4 different conditions. thank you for your kindness.
Good question. The study you describe is going to succeed or fail based on how well you write the vignettes. There is sort of an art to writing vignettes for experimental purposes in social psychology experiments. You want to give people enough information so they have something to base their judgements on, but at the same time you don't want to be overtly leading in the information. Each IV needs to have a vignette and all the information has the be identical except for the IVs (such as friend / stranger). Because you are setting up a 2x2 factorial ANOVA, you need a total of 4 vignette conditions: (friends/public), (friends/quiet), (stranger/public), and (stranger/quiet). When you write the vignettes, remember that you want enough information to inform the participants, but it also has to be ambiguous enough so that you can elicit their personal reactions without leading them to the answers you want. Hope that helps.
dear prof,
I want to test whether public exposure (IV2) to norm violations and relations with perpetrators (IV 1) of norm violations have an effect on observer vicarious embarrassment (VE).
So there are two factors that cause VE, namely public exposure and relations with perpetrators of norm violations. Public exposure has two levels, namely (a) there is exposure and (b) there is no exposure/quiet. Level relationships: (a) Friends and (b) strangers. I'm planning to use a vignette to get the VE data. My question is:
1). Should the vignette show two directly interacting variables such as: "My friend (IV2) spoke loudly in the library and was seen by many people (IV1), how embarrassed are you for her actions?" or
2) vignette only contains information for each level independently. Examples in friendship relationships: My friend (IV1) spoke loudly in the library, how embarrassed are you for what he did?, Someone you don't know (IV1) spoke loudly in the library how embarrassed were you for what he did?
I think that to get the main effect, the simulation is carried out per level, and then a statistical test of the interaction between IV1 and IV2 is carried out.
Meanwhile, if the vignette contains two IVs that interact directly with each other, such as (friends x public exposure), (foreigners x public exposure), then this has directly tested the interaction effect so that the main effect for each IV is not obtained. Is my thinking correct?
The analysis is repeated measures for 4 different conditions.
thank you for your kindness.
Good question. The study you describe is going to succeed or fail based on how well you write the vignettes. There is sort of an art to writing vignettes for experimental purposes in social psychology experiments. You want to give people enough information so they have something to base their judgements on, but at the same time you don't want to be overtly leading in the information. Each IV needs to have a vignette and all the information has the be identical except for the IVs (such as friend / stranger). Because you are setting up a 2x2 factorial ANOVA, you need a total of 4 vignette conditions: (friends/public), (friends/quiet), (stranger/public), and (stranger/quiet).
When you write the vignettes, remember that you want enough information to inform the participants, but it also has to be ambiguous enough so that you can elicit their personal reactions without leading them to the answers you want.
Hope that helps.