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Flowers (study)

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Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

Are you anxious about an upcoming job interview, public speaking engagement, or any other high-pressure workplace situation? Here’s a weird but now scientifically-proven tip: Try taking a whiff of your sweetheart’s sweaty t-shirt.

A recent experimental study finds that the mere scent of a romantic partner can lower psychological and physiological stress levels, even when that partner isn’t physically present. Moreover, the scent of a stranger increases stress levels, according to the study, “Olfactory Cues from Romantic Partners Influence Women’s Responses to Stress,” published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

“Many people wear their partner’s shirt, or they sleep on their partner’s side of the bed when they’re away; I was interested in whether there was any benefit to those behaviors,” says Marlise Hofer, a PhD student in the department of psychology at the University of British Columbia. She co-authored the study with colleagues Hanne K. Collins, now a research associate at Harvard Business School; Ashley V. Whillans, now an assistant professor in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Unit at HBS; and Frances S. Chen, an assistant professor at UBC.

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Flower Study II

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Research Methodology so as to Experimental Study: How Is It Unsimilar?

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Ok so

I’m about to go run the first of several experimental study sessions as a senior psychology student researcher...the time has finally arrived...SEND ME SOME WELL WISHES OMg we were warned about this in community college as baby freshman psychies AND NOW IT HERE. I am quite blessed to be running dual sessions with my bestie from the department! Lets do this :)

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Legwork Demeanor for Experimental Study: How Is It Different?

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The research article I'm currently doing a report on for my Comm. Studies theory class is the methodological/experimental equivalent to "We don't know why people Internet, so we poked them with sticks to figure it out!"

It's really kind of funny.

Third, due to a lack of the differentiation between motivation, involvement, and affect in past research, it is necessary to achieve a simple structure of the constructs.

WE CAN'T VARIABLES

The current authors used principal components factor analysis with varimax rotation on those 45 motive items, and applied rules of a minimum eigenvalue of 1.0 and at least 2 (60/40) loadings per factor to extract factors.

YES GOOD MUCH MIND SCIENCE

YOU EXTRACT THOSE FACTORS

(because clearly "It passes the time away, particularly when I'm bored" is not just a related statement to "I can forget about school, work, or other things" but so similar that they can clearly be reduced to just one factor (including several others!))

For more hilarity, check out the rest of the study, The Role of Motivation and Media Involvement in Explaining Internet Dependency (in the September 2008 issue of Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media).

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Definition of 'Hawthorne Effect' via @Investopedia The inclination of people who are the subjects of an experimental study to change or improve the behavior being evaluated only because it is being studied, and not because of changes in the experiment parameters or stimulus.

Hawthorne Effect Definition | Investopedia