Choose a recent study that has been referred to either in a textbook you are reading or in a lecture that you have attended. What kind of aim or aims did the study have in terms of the aims mentioned...

Choose a recent study that has been referred to either in a textbook you are reading or in a lecture that you have attended. What kind of aim or aims did the study have in terms of the aims mentioned in this chapter? What were the specific aims of this study? What kinds of variables were manipulated or measured? If the study involved testing hypotheses, were the direction and the causal nature of the relationship specified? If the hypothesis was stated in a causal form, was the design a true (i.e. randomised) one?