A psychologist was interested in gauging the success of a mood manipulation duri

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A psychologist was interested in gauging the success of a mood manipulation during one of her experiments. She had three groups of participants who underwent different types of mood induction: disgust mood induction, negative mood induction and positive mood induction. After the mood induction, participants were asked to endorse four statements relating to their mood, on a 5point Likert scale from 1 (disagree) to 5 (agree): (1) When you’re smiling the whole world smiles with you; (2) If someone served me monkey brain soup I would vomit; (3) I could not drink from a glass that I’d used to catch a spider; (4) I am a worthless piece of scum. What analysis should be done to see if the mood inductions had an effect on responses to these nine items?

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A dimensional approach can be used where the researcher gather data by rating themselves on variety of emotions,and later apply statistical techniqies like facotr analysis to identify the dimensions underlying the ratings.This approach focuses on the emotions .

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