Article: https://www.sas.rochester.edu/psy/people/faculty/reis_harry/assets/pdf/ReisManiaciCaprarielloEastwickFinkel_2011.pdf

Norton Article: https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Norton_Michael_Less%20is%20more%20The%20lure%20of%20ambiguity_26f23155-6eb1-485c-9132-2e084822cd96.pdf

Questions: 1

1. What is the key hypothesis made by the researchers in this article?

2. What background research do the authors talk about as a rationale (reasoning) for their hypotheses?

3. Who were the participants of STUDY 1? Do they limit who we can generalize these results to?

4. What were the key variables in STUDY 1? How were they operationalized?

5. What was the procedure of STUDY 1? (i.e., if you were a participant in the study, what did you experience?

6. Is STUDY 1 a true experiment?

7. What was the overall conclusion of the WHOLE PAPER (Hint: look at the General Discussion)? Can you think of other future directions (future study ideas) that could improve this design? Provide at least ONE concrete, specific suggestion.

8. In the introduction of this article, the researchers make a critique of the Norton et al. (2007) study. What was the authors' main criticism of the Norton et al. (2007) article?

9. What did this study do differently than the Norton et al. (2007) study in their methods?