Dear colleagues: A few weeks back I asked you via this mailing list to participate in a 2 minute Web experiment. Here are the results and some background information. During Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making (SPUDM) conference I had the pleasure of listening to a fascinating talk by Craig McKenzie on information leaking as an alternative explanation of the framing effect. (The framing effect describes the phenomenon that people make remarkably different decisions if the same fact is described "positively", i.e. "the cup is half full", from when it is described "negatively", i.e. "the cup is half empty"). As my own methodological goal for that conference I had set an overnight replication of one of the experiments in first day's presentations using our group's tools for Internet-based experimenting, to be able to present the results along with our methodology on the second day of the conference. The slides from this talk are now available online at http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/sowi/reips/SPUDM_03/index.html - I recommend downloading one of the Quicktime movies. The presentation contains the results of the studies and the URLs to the tools used. Thanks again for taking part in the study. Best wishes from Zürich and happy holidays, --ur ---------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips Universität Zürich ICQ: 16739325 Psychologisches Institut Rämistr. 62 CH-8001 Zürich, Switzerland http://www.psychologie.unizh.ch/sowi/reips/reipspers.html