Moral judgments about a harmful behavior are expected to be associated with one’s ability to recognize how hurt the victim of the harmful behavior is. To test this a replication of the Malti and colleagues (2012) was attempted. Researchers asked 12- and 15-year-olds whether they thought it was okay to exclude a Serbian peer from going to a soccer match (1 = really not okay, 7 = really okay) and how they thought the Serbian peer would feel if he/she was not invited to the soccer match (1= very bad, 7 = very good). The results for 12 of these adolescents are below:
Exclusion Judgment
Victim’s Feelings Evaluation
1
4
3
2
5
6
Find the correlation,r, between exclusion judgments and evaluations of the victim’s feelings (assuming the researcher wanted to use the 1 to 7 scale as a numerical interval score).
Describe this correlation and what does this correlation indicate about the relation between exclusion judgments and evaluations of the victim’s feelings?
Find the regression equation for predicting exclusion judgments from participants’ evaluations of the victim’s feelings?
Yhat = X +
Does the regression equation account for a significant portion of the variance in exclusion judgments? Use α = .01. Enter the test statistic, critical value, and decision as part of your answer.
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