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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Appl. 2010 Mar;16(1):87–95. doi: 10.1037/a0018500

Table 2.

Manipulation check data broken down by instructional condition and age group.

Conditions

Control Emotion-focus Information-focus Mean
Self-reported Detail-focus
  Young 5.7 (1.2) 5.6 (1.2) 5.6 (1.2) 5.6 (1.2)
  Old 5.6 (1.3) 5.1 (1.3) 4.8 (1.3) 5.2 (1.3)
  Mean 5.7 (1.2) 5.3 (1.3) 5.2 (1.3) 5.4 (1.3)
Self-reported Feeing-focus
  Young 5.0 (1.3) 5.6 (1.1) 4.2 (1.8) 4.9 (1.5)
  Old 4.8 (1.7) 5.3 (1.2) 3.9 (2.0) 4.7 (1.7)
  Mean 4.9 (1.5) 5.4 (1.2) 4.0 (1.9) 4.8 (1.6)
Percent Attributes Referenced
  Young 61.8 (19.3) 41.5 (17.4) 70.3 (12.6) 57.8 (20.4)
  Old 46.8 (18.6) 26.1 (18.1) 48.9 (17.6) 40.6 (20.6)
  Mean 54.3 (20.2) 33.8 (19.2) 59.6 (18.5) 49.2 (22.2)

Note: Standard deviations are shown in parentheses.