Today's Tasks

• Overview of the Lab Report

• Green Study Design

• Work on the Green Study Replication

Overview of the Lab Report

• Second half of a "typical" lab report/journal article

  • Design, Results, Discussion, and References

• 1000 words max limit

• Choose Green study (this week) or Red study (next week)

Full information on the Lab Report Information and Resources page on Canvas

Timeline of the Report

• This week: Green study analysis

• Next week: Red study analysis

• Week 8: Writing up Results

• Week 9: Submit!

Template Documents

• Your choice of two document options: Markdown or Word/Script

  • Markdown: Do analysis, create plot, and write report in RMarkdown document; knit to Word

  • Word/Script: Do analysis and create plot in script, write report in Word document

• Either way, submit a Word document!

Summary of Results

• In either document type, enter a few particular numerical results from your analysis in the "Summary of Results" section at the beginning

  • Your data is unique to you, so each person will have different numbers

  • Do not delete or move this section!

  • Complete once your analysis is done

• Does not contribute to your word count

Academic Integrity

• In general, you can support each other, but you must each prepare and produce your own report

• Fine: sharing papers for background reading, discussing papers/theories, problem-solving code together, helping each other debug errors

• NOT fine: copy/pasting code, sharing any text or code, working together on a single document

Questions?

Green Study Design

• Original paper: Griskevicious et al. (2010)

  • Interested in the relationship between social status, altruism, and consumer behaviour

• Participants randomly assigned to read a story evoking high status motives, or a control story

• Then asked to choose between two equally priced products: one "green" (environmentally friendly) and one non-green

• What did the original paper predict? What do you predict?

Green Study Design

• For the report/practical, assume that we performed a replication study

  • Same study design, variables, stimuli, etc.

  • Different sample of people

• Key question: Does this experiment replicate?

  • That is, do we get the same result/find the same effect?

  • What does that tell us about our research question?

Getting Started

• Choose your document type

• Create a report or week_06 project (if you haven't already)

• Follow the tasks in the worksheet

  • Use the tutorial if you get stuck!

• As usual, we will have a break partway through for the PIN