First, to determine the effect of gender of candidate and gender of voter on inferences from facial appearance, four separate 2 (gender of candidate)×2 (gender of participant) repeated-measures ANOVAs were conducted on ratings of the competence, dominance, attractiveness and approachability of political candidates.
Further, exploratory factor analysis was conducted with ratings of specific emotions.
Therefore, the analysis was conducted excluding ratings of "not observed" such that 134 of the 822 assessments were not considered reliable for inclusion leaving 688 assessments in the analysis.
The researchers asked participants to play hypothetical monetary trust games and conduct ratings of faces that were artificially distorted to mimic a lens at various lengths from a person's face (so that they could control for things like lighting).
If opinion research firms conducted approval-ratings polls for baseball players, the Tigers' Carlos Guillen would have suffered the steepest decline after Sunday's game.
However, the requirement to conduct precise ratings by using the crisp rating scale ultimately limits the capability of decision maker to create suitable expressions.
Data triangulation using the instrument has demonstrated a high degree of accord between self-ratings and ratings conducted by others [ 18].
A mixed ANOVA was conducted comparing mood ratings (for anxiety ratings) across worry groups, conditions, and time (condition baseline, and before and after the worry test phase).
Raters were trained to criteria (>80% exact agreement) prior to conducting the ratings; inter-rater reliability was 0.98 (interclass correlation).
DT, MS and EW also contributed to subject tracking, scheduling, and collection of data, including conducting CERAD ratings.
