A political scientist wants to find out if there is a correlation between listening to a newscast and an individual’s mood. This researcher recruits a group of participants and has them listen to a newscast that was recorded earlier that morning. Participants are instructed to listen for as long as they want; when they are finished listening, the researcher writes down the listening duration and then asks each participant to complete the Acme Mood Report (AMR), a selfadministered instrument that renders a score between 0 and 100 (0 = Very bad mood . . . 100 = Very good mood).
Data set: Ch 11 – Exercise 04B.sav
Variable: MinNews
Definition: Number of minutes of news listened to
Type: Continuous
Variable: AMR
Definition: Acme Mood Report
Type: Continuous (0 = Very bad mood . . . 100 = Very good mood)

a. Write the hypotheses.
b. Run the criteria of the pretest checklist (normality [for both variables], linearity, homoscedasticity) and discuss your findings.
c. Run the bivariate correlation, scatterplot with regression line, and descriptive statistics for both variables and document your findings (r and Sig. [p value], ns, means, standard deviations) and hypothesis resolution.
d. Write an abstract under 200 words detailing a summary of the study, the bivariate correlation, hypothesis resolution, and implications of your findings.