Paper

Methods Section

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No

Header

1. Is the word “ Methods” centered and in bold at the top of your methods page?

Participants

2. Do you have the word “Participants” flush left and in bold, right below the word “Methods”?

3. Did you list out your demographic characteristics, including gender, age, and ethnicity / race?

4. Did you provide the descriptive statistics for (means and standard deviations) for age and italicize the letters M and SD?

5. Did you provide frequencies for gender and ethnicity/race and italicize the N?

6. Do you include tables for age, gender, and ethnicity below this paragraph?

7. Did you use the brand new participant set from study two and NOT the set from study one?

Materials and Procedure

1. Did you mention informed consent?

2. Did you thoroughly describe your two independent variables in enough depth and detail that another researcher could duplicate your materials (though you can refer back to study one if the variable is identical)?

3. Did you give your IVs names that matches up with the names you refer to in the results section?

4. Did you describe your dependent variable, noting the scales you used (e.g. “Yes / No”, “A scale ranging from 1 (not at all likely) to 6 (very likely))” for EACH of your DVs?

5. Did you fully describe what participants went through in the study, noting the order in which they received study materials (e.g. first informed consent, then IVs, DVs, and debriefing)?

Results Section

Yes

No

1. Do you have the word “ Results” centered and in bold, immediately following the methods section?

2. Did you analyze 3 dependent variables (1 chi-square, 2 ANOVAs)?

3. Did you mention all of the IVs and the DV by name when talking about your analysis?

4. Did you include means and standard deviations within parentheses for each level of your independent variables?

5. If your factorial ANOVA was significant, did you include follow up simple effects tests?

6. Did you italicize the letters F, t, p, M, SD, and X2 (where appropriate)?

7. Do you include tables chi-square and ANOVA below their respective paragraph?

Discussion Section

Yes

No

1. Do you have the word “ Discussion” centered and in bold, immediately following the results section?

2. Did you remind your reader of your study two hypothesis?

3. Did you mention whether you supported or did not support your study two hypothesis?

4. Did you offer your own educated interpretation of the Results, by using the information from your literature review?

Tables/Appendix (New Information in this section)

Yes

No

*please note tables can be in-text, in the appendix or both

1. If you have appendices, are they at the end of the paper?

2. If you have appendices, do they start on their own page?

3. If you have appendices, is the word “Appendix” centered on each page followed by a short description of the appendix?

Tables Information

1. Did you include a table for each of the following demographic variables: Gender, age, and ethnicity?

2. For your manipulation check, did you include your chi square or t-Test info? (If a chi square, did you include your crosstabulation and chi square table? If a t-Test, did you include your descriptives and t-Test table?)

3. For your first 2 X 2 ANOVA, did you include the descriptives tables and your F table? (you don’t need to include the 2nd set of ANOVA tables)