Language Study
Thanks a lot for your participation in this experiment!
Task
In this experiment you are asked to judge how sure a person is about what they say.
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
Imagine you're having a conversation with Mary, an old friend you haven't seen in a while. She wants to get you up to date on what's been going on recently and tells you about what some friends have been up to.
Your task is to judge how sure Mary is about what she's saying.
You will consecutively be shown different statements by Mary on the screen. Your task is to judge how sure Mary is about this statement by choosing a value on a 7-point scale:
1 - very unsure
7 - very sure
Here are some examples:
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Peter told me that he will get a raise.
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Mary seems quite sure that Peter will get a raise. You could rate it with '6' or '7'.
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John may have gambled away all his money.
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Mary doesn't seem to be completely sure that John gambled away all his money. You could rate it with '3' or '4'.
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There's no way that Linda will go out with Mike.
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Mary seems quite unsure that Linda will go out with Mike. 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 certainty as possible.
Use higher values for certain sentences and lower values for uncertain 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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