Sentence examples for a manipulation check from inspiring English sources

Following the approach taken by Mower et al. (2012), a manipulation check was conducted to assess participants' enjoyment of the manipulated exterior store atmospherics (i.e., the appeal of these atmospherics to participants).

Results: A manipulation check revealed that 80% of the participants believed in the deception.

A manipulation check showed that participants experienced significantly higher levels of state anxiety in the high-pressure condition.

A manipulation check confirmed that students perceived same-gender models as more similar to them than opposite-gender models.

On the next morning participants provided a blood sample for serum cortisol measurement, which served as a manipulation check.

As a manipulation check, we first tested whether generosity increased as a function of the amount of monetary benefits for the other person and decreased as a function of the costs to the participant.

Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (exact) were used as a manipulation-check for the effect of the SETT on PPTs and to test for habituation or sensitization between 15 s and 30 s baseline VAS-ratings for heat-pain.

One previous study (Watkins & Moulds, 2005) has also examined the extent to which the manipulations affected the abstractness of participants' responses to the task of interest (using the judgments of an independent rater) as a further manipulation check.

As a further manipulation check, participants were asked a series of questions about their subjective experience of performing the picture word task, both after the first and last blocks of training.

As a second manipulation check, we used trial number as an additional covariate in each of our GEE models.

Since ratings of memory specificity are very close to ratings of memory abstractness, in the current study we explored the effects of the manipulations on this variable directly, without the inclusion of a further manipulation check.