. A study by Zhou, Vohs, & Baumeister (2009) showed that handling money reduces the perception pain. In this study, a group of college students was told that they were participating in a manual dexterity study. Half the students were given a stack of money to count and the other half got a stack of blank pieces of paper. After the counting task, the participants were asked to dip their hands into bowls of very hot water (122o F) and rate how uncomfortable it was. The following data show how uncomfortable it was (rating of pain). a. Is there a significant difference in reported pain between the two conditions? Use = .01. b. Use proper APA format for a concluding statement. Counting Money Counting Paper 7 10 6 10 9 12 5 8 M = 6.75 M = 10.00 SD = 1.71 SD = 1.63