Methods
Participants
The participants were 29 college students, and there were both traditional and nontraditional students. They were enrolled in an Experimental Psychology course at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The participants completed the experiment as a learning exercise for the course.
Materials
A SMI iView X RED eye tracker (SensoMotoric Instruments, Berlin, Germany) with a video-based infrared camera was used in the experiment. There were four pictures that were used, a man with an arm tattoo, and the same man without an arm tattoo, a woman with an arm tattoo, and the same woman without an arm tattoo. The photos were viewed on a 21” monitor. The tattoos were removed using Photoshop (Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA).
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The groups were split into four conditions. The first one was a man with an upper arm tattoo. The second condition was the same man without an upper arm tattoo. The third condition was a woman with an upper arm tattoo. The last condition was the same woman but her tattoo was removed. There were two different types of factors. The first factor is the target gender and it has two levels (male, female). It is manipulated by seeing if dwell time (ms) will be different for each gender. The second factor is the tattoo, and it has two levels (present, absent). It is manipulated by removing the tattoo, and then seeing if the participants still will look at the target area. The woman with the upper arm tattoo is extremely colorful. The flowers are purple on the bottom and blue on the top. There are a few butterflied on the back. The man’s tattoo is colorful as well, and it is also patriotic. There is an American flag that is covering a bold eagle, and on the top is blue with stars. An area of interest (AIO) was drawn over the area of the arm with the tattoo and the arm without the tattoo. The dependent variable of the experiment is dwell time, and that is measured in milliseconds. The dwell time is the amount of time that the eyes were fixating and moving around the
Participants
The participants were 29 college students, and there were both traditional and nontraditional students. They were enrolled in an Experimental Psychology course at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. The participants completed the experiment as a learning exercise for the course.
Materials
A SMI iView X RED eye tracker (SensoMotoric Instruments, Berlin, Germany) with a video-based infrared camera was used in the experiment. There were four pictures that were used, a man with an arm tattoo, and the same man without an arm tattoo, a woman with an arm tattoo, and the same woman without an arm tattoo. The photos were viewed on a 21” monitor. The tattoos were removed using Photoshop (Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA).
Design …show more content…
The groups were split into four conditions. The first one was a man with an upper arm tattoo. The second condition was the same man without an upper arm tattoo. The third condition was a woman with an upper arm tattoo. The last condition was the same woman but her tattoo was removed. There were two different types of factors. The first factor is the target gender and it has two levels (male, female). It is manipulated by seeing if dwell time (ms) will be different for each gender. The second factor is the tattoo, and it has two levels (present, absent). It is manipulated by removing the tattoo, and then seeing if the participants still will look at the target area. The woman with the upper arm tattoo is extremely colorful. The flowers are purple on the bottom and blue on the top. There are a few butterflied on the back. The man’s tattoo is colorful as well, and it is also patriotic. There is an American flag that is covering a bold eagle, and on the top is blue with stars. An area of interest (AIO) was drawn over the area of the arm with the tattoo and the arm without the tattoo. The dependent variable of the experiment is dwell time, and that is measured in milliseconds. The dwell time is the amount of time that the eyes were fixating and moving around the