Ex4.4 {SenSrivastava}

Data on Effects of Air Pollution on Interpersonal Attraction

Description

The Ex4.4 data frame has 24 rows and 3 columns. An experiment was conducted to examine the effects of air pollution on interpersonal attraction. Twenty-four subjects were each placed with a stranger for a 15-minute period in a room which was either odor free or contaminated with ammonium sulfide. The stranger came from a culture which was similar or dissimilar to that of the subject. At the end of the encounter, each subject was asked to assess his degree of attraction towards the stranger on a likert scale of 1–10 with 10 indicating strong attraction.

Usage

data(Ex4.4)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Likert

a numeric vector, attraction on a likert scale.

Odor

a factor with levels Free Odor, room was contaminated or not.

Culture

a factor with levels Dissimilar Similar, similar or dissimilar culture.

Source

The full data set is given in Srivastava and Carter (1983).

Examples

data(Ex4.4)
summary(Ex4.4)
plot(Ex4.4)