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Published in final edited form as: J Exp Soc Psychol. 2008;44(5):1256–1269. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.04.007

Table 2.

Meta Analysis of Effect Sizes (ds) Involving High-Level Measures of Experiments 2-4 and Mean Effect Size Across All Measures

Experiment	Measure	Effect Size (d)
Experiment 2	Combined effect size of search measures	.16
Experiment 3	Importance of desirability aspects	.24
Experiment 4	Differentiation between the quality of a well- vs. poorly written story	.45
Weighted mean d		.33
z value of weighted mean d		3.02^*

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