answer all the questions based on the article I attached
1. Article and Abstract (1.5):
· What is the title
of this paper and what journal was it published in?
· Who are the
authors and what university are they associated with?
· Based on your
reading of the abstract, what is the main take-away point of this article?
2. Introduction (3.5):
· What did the
present study examine (usually at end of first or second paragraph)?
· In one sentence,
what does the previous literature say about who gossips?
· In one sentence,
what does the previous literature say about how people gossip?
·
What
is the difficult of examining gossip and why is the EAR useful in studying
gossip?
· What are the two
main research questions asked (usually last paragraph of introduction)?
3. Method (3)
· Who was sampled in
this study? What information does Table 1 include? Be specific about what
information is included in Table 1.
· In one sentence,
what was the overall procedure?
· What were the EAR
recordings coded for? Be sure to include a one word or sentence description of
each.
· List the variables
that were assessed using questionnaires.
4. Results (2)
·
Discuss
one finding from the meta-analyses on who gossips (from age, income, sex, or personality)?
·
Discuss
one finding from the meta-analyses on how people gossip (from valance, subject,
or topic)?
5. Discussion (5)
· In one sentence,
briefly describe the evidence this study provided, according to the authors.
· What is the
rationale behind why more extraverted people might gossip more (under Who
Gossips)?
· “Our study, directly
sampling daily conversations, estimated that people gossiped in approximately
____%, compared to past estimates of 66%, of conversations.” (under How Do
People Gossip)?
· What is the
rationale behind why people might gossip more about an acquaintance rather than
a celebrity (under How Do People Gossip)?
· What are the
benefits of using the EAR (under Naturalistic Observation)?
· What is one
limitation or one strength of this study?
·
What
is one future direction for this line of work? Respond with your own ideas and
opinions, feel free to be creative. What future direction would you like this
work to take?
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