The Text Highlights an Intriguing Study That Demonstrates How the Presence

question 143

Essay

The text highlights an intriguing study that demonstrates how the presence of cell phones can decrease closeness, trust, empathy, and overall conversation quality among strangers. Design a follow-up experiment to examine whether the presence of cell phones has the same impact on the conversation quality between friends. In your answer, be sure to operationally define both your independent and dependent variables, as well as specify what will happen to your participants in both the experimental and control conditions.

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Definitions:

UV Light

Electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays, often associated with sunburn and has germicidal properties.

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A genetic condition characterized by the presence of only one copy of a chromosome instead of the usual pair in an organism's autosomal cells.

Live Births

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