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803 RESEARCH III: Laboratory
Remember that everything that appears in the results section
should be foreshadowed in the Introduction and Methods sections. The comparisons you make should be clear
from your hypotheses. Any scores you
use should be clear from your descriptions of materials or procedure. Any demographic data you choose to explore
(or included in your hypotheses) should be described under Participants.
Start with descriptives. Move to comparisons. Continue with any exploratory analyses. Report statistics to two decimal places only. Report the direction of difference (what is greater or less than what). Illustrate what is clarified by illustration if it is a significant finding. Summarize in a table if it is helpful. The sample below is totally fabricated. The numbers are not real, and do not add up. The single spacing is not APA style. Consult your text book for additional examples.
ANOVA: 2x2 with one
between and one within
Descriptive statistics are
summarized in Table 1. These data were
examined using a 2x2 ANOVA with one between (type of background music) and one
within factor (affective tone of words).
The main effect for music was significant (F (1, 36) = 5.87; p < .01) with participants in the
happy music condition recalling more words than those for whom sad music was
played in the background. The effect
for word type within subject was not significant (F (1, 36) = 1.23,
n.s.)
Table 1. Number of
words (M (SD)) by music and word type (N = 40)
Type of Music
Sad Happy
(n=20) (n=20)
Sad Words 27.65
(9.89) 32.25 (10.88)
Happy Words 29.75
(10.33) 34.25 (9.11)