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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 coffeeIced 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 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 talk Giving 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

Font Use 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 point 18 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 or two 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 Bullets Some 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 Timing Slides 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 drink 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