insult: Effects of unprovoked verbal attack

In SMIR: Companion to Statistical Modelling in R

Description

Ten male and nine female subjects were asked to fill out a questionnaire which mixed innocuous questions with questions attempting to assess the subject's self-reported hostility. A hostility score for each individual was calculated from these responses. After completing the questionnaire, the subjects were then left waiting for a long time, and were subjected to insults and verbal abuse by the experimenter when the questionnaire was eventually collected. All subjects were told that they had filled out the questionnaire incorrectly, and were instructed to fill it out again. A second hostility score was then calculated from these later responses.

Usage

data(insult)

Format

A data.frame of 19 obs. of 3 variables:

[,1]	hbefore	integer, hostility score before verbal attack
[,2]	hafter	integer, hostility score after verbal attack
[,3]	sex	Factor w/ 2 levels "female","male"

Note

See pages 5 and 17 of SMIR

Source

Erickson, B. H. and Nosanchuk, T. A., (1979). Understanding Data, Milton Keynes, UK, Open University Press, UK.

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