Language Study
Thanks a lot for your participation in this experiment!
Task
In this experiment you are asked to judge how likely it is that a statement is true.
Procedure
First I will ask you to enter some information about your person into a data window.
This data serves purely scientific purposes and will be treated anonymously.
All personal information will be deleted after the completion of the study.
Before the experiment starts, you can do a first practice phase with a few sentences.
Then the actual experiment starts.
You may break off the experiment at any time if you no longer wish to continue. Please note that only completed experiments will be paid.
Experiment: Sentence judgements
In this experiment, you will be given a series of statements that describe different situations. Some of them describe situations that are very likely to be true, while others are less likely to be true.
You will consecutively be shown different statements on the screen. Your task is to judge how likely it is that the statement is true by choosing a value on a 7-point scale:
1 - very unlikely
7 - very likely
Here are some examples:
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Peter will have a nice dinner this evening.
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This statement seems to be very likely. You could rate it with '6' or '7'.
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John may win the marathon.
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This statement seems somewhat likely. You could rate it with '3' or '4'.
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Mary will teach her cat to repair a car.
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This statement seems very unlikely. You could rate it with '1'.
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Final instructions
You may use a scale from 1-7 to rate the sentences.
Try to differentiate as many levels of likelihood as possible.
Use higher values for likely sentences and lower values for unlikely sentences.
You are asked to rate 48 sentences and the experiment will take about 15 minutes.
There are no "right" or "wrong" answers. Just follow your instincts.
Ready? Press "Continue"!
Progress:
Experimenter: Andreas Kehl, Universität Tübingen
Das Experiment wurde mit der freien Software OnExp_v.1.2 erstellt.
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