Seminars

Question 1

Carney (2010) study found…

Answer 1

The effects of ‘power pose’ or ‘closed body’ on gambling task. Power Pose = increase testosterone and decrease cortisol.

Question 2

Who replicated Carney 2010 study and what was found?

Answer 2

Ranehill (2015) found RPs to be subjectively more powerful but no change in hormone level or decision making

Question 3

What’s the difference between Cuddy and Carney (2010) and Ranehill study?

Answer 3

Ranehill had more RPs, more even gender mix , longer posture duration and different timing of salvia measures

Question 4

Attrition

Answer 4

Number of participants that withdraw or did not complete study or removed from data analysis

Question 5

Attrition bias

Answer 5

One condition tend to drop out or be removed more, skewing the data in one direction or another.

Question 6

Inter-observer reliability

Answer 6

Agreement between two or more observers / raters who have witnessed a behaviour/ event.

Question 7

Why is inter-observer reliability important?

Answer 7

Observation studies can be subjective meaning studies are open to experimenter bias ( experimenter can influence results).

Question 8

How do you work out inter-observer reliability?

Answer 8

After both researchers have coded the experiments: Number of trials you have agreement on/ number of trials x 100 = inter observer reliability %