Liu et al. (2023) Study 1

Liu et al. study social interactions and the impact of surprise on people reaching out if this contact is unexpected. Experiment 1 focuses on questionnaires where the experimental condition is the perceived appreciation of reaching out to someone (vs being reached to). The study used a questionnaire administered to 200 American adults recruited on the Prolific Academic platform. The response index consists of the average of four questions measured on a Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 7 (to a great extent): higher values thus indicate higher appreciation.

Usage

LRMM23_S1

Format

A data frame with 200 rows and 5 variables:

appreciation

[double] response variable, average Likert scale for appreciation

role

[factor] experimental factor, either initiator or responder

form

[factor] form of communication, one of email, text, phone or other

gender

[factor] gender, one of male, female or other

age

[double] age of participant

Source

Research Box 289, https://researchbox.org/289, distributed under a CC BY 4.0 license

References

Liu, P. J., Rim, S., Min, L., & Min, K. E. (2023). The surprise of reaching out: Appreciated more than we think. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(4), 754–771. doi:10.1037/pspi0000402