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== Empirical Paper Questions: Emotional contagion in social networks == Refer to the following (controversial! highly cited! moderately straightforward!) paper to answer the questions below. Please be prepared to identify specific parts of the paper that support your answers. Note that several of the questions below correspond loosely to the questions I have asked you to answer with respect to your [[Statistics_and_Statistical_Programming_(Fall_2020)#Research_project_plan_and_dataset_identification|research project plan and dataset identification assignment]] due later this week (that's called "scaffolding" for those of you keeping score at home). :Kramer, Adam D. I., Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock. 2014. “Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion through Social Networks.” ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' 111(24):8788–90. [[http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full Open access]] === EQ1: Research questions and objectives === Restate or describe, in your own words, (a) the main research question of the paper and be sure to identify (b) the population of interest ("target population"). === EQ2: Sample and experiment design === Describe (a) the sample used in the study; (b) the treatment and control groups, and (c) the experimental manipulation(s). === EQ3: Data and variables === Describe (a) the unit of analysis or cases, (b) the main variables used and their "types" (e.g., continuous, categorical, etc. See ''OpenIntro'' chapter 1 for ideas). === EQ4: Results === Summarize the results of the study. There is one figure in the paper (Figure 1). Explain how the figure represents the results. === EQ5: Interpretation and contribution (significance) === (a) Summarize the authors' interpretation of the study results. (b) Discuss whether the results generalize from the sample to the target population. (c) Summarize the core contribution of the paper.
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