361 students at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill participated in a multi-stage psychology experiment in 2016. The study involved random assignment to read articles on history or ecology, write about personal experiences (grateful, indebting, proud, or influential), and receive bogus negative feedback on a reading comprehension test. The dataset was authored by Yen-Ping Chang and harvested by ODUM.
Use Cases
- Analyzing the effect of recalling grateful experiences on subsequent task persistence based on the study procedure.
- Studying the impact of bogus negative feedback on learning choices based on the described test-retest design.
- Comparing responses between participants exposed to cultural measures and those who were not based on the two study versions.
- Investigating the relationship between personal narrative type and article topic preference based on the between-participant design.
Strengths
- 361 participant records provide a substantial sample size for analysis.
- A between-participant design with random assignment for both article topic and personal experience recall allows for causal inference.
- The procedure includes multiple stages (pre-tests, intervention, post-tests) enabling longitudinal analysis of changes.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- The sample consists solely of university students, which may limit generalizability to other populations.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
Provenance
- Source
- ODUM Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Experimental study with surveys and behavioral tasks.
- Time Range
- 2016
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-12 16:09:56; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA