... may want to have selection criteria for participants so as to control for confounding variables. Method Design A between participants design was used in this experiment. The Independent Variable was the gender of the person giving directions, either male or female. This produced two conditions. Condition 1 (experimental condition) consisted of 10 participants, 5 males and 5 females and the gender of the direction-giver was female. A short story (vignette) describing a driver asking for directions was read out loud to the participants and they were then asked to state the number of miles they would continue to drive before taking an alternative action. Condition 2 (control condition) was exactly the same as condition 1 with an equal number of men and women, the only difference was that the gender of the direction-giver in this condition was male. The dependent variable was the number miles the participant stated they would continue to drive ...

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