Exercise 8.4 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 done listening, the researcher writes down the listening duration and then asks each participant to complete the Acme Mood Report (AMR), a self-administered instrument that renders a score between 0 and 100 (0 = very bad mood, 100 = very good mood). Data set: Ch 08 - Exercise 04A.sav Codebook Variable:minnews Definition:Number of minutes of news listened to Type:Continuous Variable:amr Definition:Acme Mood Report score Type:Continuous (0 = very bad mood, 100 = very good mood)

1. Write the hypotheses.
2. Run the criteria of the pretest checklist (normality [for both variables], linearity, homoscedasticity) and discuss your findings. Paste the SPSS findings.
3. 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. Paste the results.
4. Write an abstract up to 200 words detailing a summary of the study, the bivariate correlation, hypothesis resolution, and implications of your findings.