Week of Nov. 9

Lots of data collection going on these days. I was out at Stonehenge on Friday (always a stressful experience) - despite some trouble getting started due to the women being on a nature walk, I did manage to collect 7 participants worth of data. That's six extra for the face devaluation paradigm, and one solitary person for the Mondrian Value Learning. I was supposed to have an extra three, but two of them were embroiled in some sort of drama and one had a hugely hard time with the paradigm, so she didn't want to take part.

I am also running an extra 12 (or so) undergrads for my Mond Deval study. I analysed the data and it is looking a bit funny (ie. quite a few people appear to like the loss stimuli better than the gain, in opposition to my lovely pilot study) so I am also giving them a quick questionnaire about what strategies they are using. I hope this will help!

Angele has taken over the Hot or Not analysis. She has been having trouble with it, but I have gone over it with her quite a few times, so hopefully now she is able to do the analysis and report it. She was confused about how to report the statistical significance, so I will send her an example of that for reference.

Other than that I have been super busy with marking and work for my NEUR*6000 course. Two more assignments for that are due in November, though I have to say on the whole it is not as much work as I feared. (Luckily!)

Also, Alex, Asma and I are doing an inhibition/self-regulation study. My "job" is to enter all the questionnaires we will be using (self-regulation, social desirability, etc) into E-Prime. That is pretty much done and I think we will be ready to go with this one very soon.

Had a meeting with Mark yesterday, and this week I will be trying to a) reanalyze all the STC data, looking at RTs, ACC etc and also doing all the correlations, and b). start writing up the Hot or Not/Mondrian Deval stuff. I need to at least have an abstract by Dec 1 so I can apply for VSS. Gonna be a busy week.