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Study of the day

Physical and Interpersonal Warmth(Williams & Bargh, 2009)

1. Priming

Experimenter meets subjects in lobby with textbooks, a clipboard, and a cup of coffee

Hot coffee Iced coffee

Person A is intelligent, skillful, industrious, determined, practical, and cautious

How _____ is Person A? 1 (cold) - 7 (warm)

2. “Personality impression” task

Results

Hot coffee

Iced coffee

4.71 4.25

After holding hot coffee, subjects rate Person A as

warmer

Implications

Warm-cold as central traits in impression formation

Insular cortex: activates in response to temperature and is also involved in trust and empathy

Presenting Research

Structuring a psychology research talkGiving effective presentations

Learning objectives

Hour glass metaphor : start broad, go specific, end broad

Introductory example should be something the audience can relate to and understand

e.g., a quote, a recent news story, a previous familiar study or line of research, a rhetorical question

Have intro memorized

Structuring a psychology research talk

Introduce your research question clearly

Move into a brief lit review – no need to provide details for all the studies but weave them together into a story that leads to your research question and hypotheses

Include citations on the slides

Structuring a psychology research talk

Method: Include participants and procedure

Results: Show relevant results in graphs for ease of interpretation

- Walk the audience through the graph by orienting them to the axes and bars

Discussion: Summarize results and add why they are important

Future studies

Conclusion: Implications, importance

Structuring a psychology research talk

FontUse a sans-serif font for readability:

This font is Arial

This font is Comic Sans

Serif fonts are harder to read:

This font is Times New Roman

This font is Courier

Using your slides effectively

Font size should be greater than 18 point18 point

20 point

24 point

28 point

36 point

One exception is references, which can be smaller (14 point)

Using your slides effectively

ALL CAPITAL LETTERS IS NOT RECOMMENDED BECAUSE IT MAKES THE SLIDES MUCH HARDER TO READ

(AND IT SEEMS LIKE YOU ARE YELLING AT THE AUDIENCE)

Some find that underlined text is also hard to read

Bold text works well

USING YOUR SLIDES EFFECTIVELY

Try not to put text in the lower 1/3 of the slide•Some audience members may not be able to see it

Raise your hand if you can read this.

USING YOUR SLIDES EFFECTIVELY

Colors

One good option:

Dark text against a light background

Using your slides effectively

Colors

Another good option:

Light text against a dark background

Using your slides effectively

Colors

One good option:

Dark text against a light background

Using your slides effectively

There are some bad color combinations.

Especially if someone in your audience is color-blind.

Colors

One good option:

Dark text against a light background

Using your slides effectively

Another bad one

Using your slides effectively

Text

Keep text to one ortwo lines.

Using your slides effectively

Text

It’s not good to put too much text on the screen because it can make it distracting to the audience when they are trying to listen to you and read the text at the same time. Every time your audience gets distracted, it takes away from your presentation.

Using your slides effectively

BulletsSome people recommend not using bullets at all

If you do use them, limit yourself to three points• Item 1• Item 2• Item 3

Sublists can get messy

Using your slides effectively

TimingSlides take more time than you realize!

Plan on less than one slide per minute

Using your slides effectively

Animation

Animate your points so that they come up as you talk about them

This will keep the audience engaged, slow you down, and keep the slides neat

Using your slides effectively

Empty space is a good thing in presentations

Presenting yourself

You are more interesting than your slides

Face the audience & make eye contact

Don’t stop too often to drinkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2DM2U-nXe0

Act comfortable standing up – don’t move wildly or stand rigidly

Time yourself

Presentations should be 10 min max (2 min for question and answer)

Giving effective presentations

You have learned how to…-Structure a psychology research talk-Give an effective presentation

Congratulations