... where the direction-giver was male. The Dependent Variable (DV) was the number of miles the participant would continue to drive after reading the vignette, if they were the driver. Participants were asked to give an exact number of miles they would continue, which was recorded in tabular form. The data collected was therefore continuous. The experimental hypothesis used was that participants would drive further if the direction-giver was female than if the direction-giver was male. This hypothesis was one-tailed. The null hypothesis was that the participants would not drive further if the direction-giver was female rather than male. It was made sure that the participants had no prior knowledge of the aim of the experiment or what it entailed. They were all briefed in the same way and the only difference between the conditions was the DV. Participants conferred with no-one. Participants were distributed equally between conditions according to sex, ...

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