Belief Perseverance Florida International University And...

Belief Perseverance Comfort Oyetunji Florida International University Methods Participants One-hundred and forty five participants, which made up of college students in Florida International University and Miami Dade County residences. These contributors came from different demographics background. There were 65 were male (44.8%) and 80 were female (55.2%). The age of the sample ranged from 12 to 57 (M = 1.55, SD = 0.499). This included 25.5% Caucasian (N = 37), 52.4% Hispanic (N = 76), 3.4% Native American (N = 5), 6.2% African American (N = 9), 4.8% Asian (N = 7), and 7.6% of participants reporting â€Å"other† (N = 11). Materials and Procedures Materials utilized for this present study consisted of three-page (hard copy) survey and†¦show more content†¦In the first part of the study, participants were asked to follow the instructions at the top of the page. As soon as they finished reading the instructions, the volunteer chooses the threat/condition level that had the best fit in the given scenario. In part two, participants completed six questions about the toy experiment. Each questions asked for different response from the surprising level, to whether to be replicated, attractiveness or not. The responses to these questions were based on an interval scale from -5 (low) to 5 (high). For Instance, question 4 asked compared to children in the no-threat condition, how do you think children in the threat condition will rank the forbidden toy (-5 = less attractiveness, 0= no impact, 5 = very attractiveness). Question 5 asked What if we did this study in Tampa, Florida? Compared to children in the no-threat condition, how do you think children in the threat condition will rank the forbidden toy? (-5= less attractiveness 5= very attractiveness), Question 7 asked: In the study you originally read, what outcome did the researchers say occurred? (This question is the manipulation check for the study, since we want to ensure that participants were to focus on this specific part of the experiment. The choices were Threat level to the children were: less attractiveness, neutral attractiveness, or