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Forty-eight college students (23 female, 25 male) were recruited as volunteers to participate in this study. In one condition, participants were instructed to begin assembling the puzzle after seeing the green light flash. In the other condition, participants were instructed to begin assembling the puzzle after hearing a bell. The total time it took participants to complete the task was measured.
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One reason the results were contrary to predictions may be because men and women differ in their attitudes toward video content. This possibility could not be examined in this study because only 5 of the 36 participants were men. Thus, this difference should be examined in future research studies.
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People sometimes believe they have control over situations that are based purely on chance. For example, participants may believe they had some control over winning a lottery. Abby and Normal (1971) found that individuals tended to engage in more self-serving bias when they received rewards based on chance. Based on this study and other, it was hypothesized that when participants were given a prize for winning a chance-based game, they would report higher perceptions of control than those that did not a receive a prize.
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Married couples may consider certain non-physical intimate encounters as marital infidelity. The present study examined three types intimate relationships (cyber sex, phone sex, and physical sex) on perceptions of martial infidelity. Participants read a short scenario asking them to imagine themselves in one of the randomly assigned conditions and then answered a series of questions. As hypothesized, both phone sex and physical sex relationships were rated similarly in terms of marital infidelity.
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