Imagine That Two People Are Participants in the Same Study

question 46

Essay

Imagine that two people are participants in the same study. After reliving a personal experience of loss, each participant is asked to rate how strongly he feels sadness on a scale from 0 (not sad at all) to 10 (strongest experience of sadness ever felt). One participant rates is sadness as a "6," the other as a 9." In fact, the two participants feel equally sad. Explain how this might happen, based upon the limitations of self-report measures discussed in your textbook.

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