Older adolescents respond faster when observed by an experimenter than by a friend or when alone, while social condition does not affect younger adolescents' or adults' response times¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q3 · i2–i3
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i3 A two-way interaction between social condition and age group on response time was followed up by within-group ANOVAs; only the older adolescent group showed a significant social condition effect on RT. → Wolf L.K. 2015 q3 i3 In the older adolescent group, RT was faster in the experimenter-present condition than in both the friend-present and alone conditions. → Wolf L.K. 2015 (2)

Evidence¶

Wolf L.K. 2015¶

Wolf L.K., Bazargani N., Kilford E.J., Dumontheil I., Blakemore S.-J. (2015). The audience effect in adolescence depends on who's looking over your shoulder. Journal of Adolescence, 43, 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.05.003

q3 · i2 · causal · r2

Mixed-design ANOVA on mean RT from correct trials in the same experiment. The social condition × age group interaction was significant (ηp2 = 0.09); the three-way interaction was not significant (p > 0.1).

"The analysis revealed a two-way interaction between social condition and age group (F(4,118) = 2.84, p = 0.027, ηp2 = 0.09) (Fig. 3), while the three-way interaction was not significant (p > 0.1)."

Wolf L.K. 2015 (2)¶

Wolf L.K., Bazargani N., Kilford E.J., Dumontheil I., Blakemore S.-J. (2015). The audience effect in adolescence depends on who's looking over your shoulder. Journal of Adolescence, 43, 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.05.003

q3 · i3 · causal · r2

Follow-up repeated-measures ANOVA within the older adolescent group (n = 20). The social condition effect on RT was significant (ηp2 = 0.16), with faster responses in the experimenter-present than the friend-present (r = 0.46) and alone (r = 0.44) conditions; alone and friend-present did not differ (p > 0.7).

"However in the older adolescent group, social condition significantly affected RT (F(2,38) = 3.59, p = 0.037, ηp2 = 0.16) with faster responses in the experimenter-present condition than in both the friend-present (t(19) = 2.25, p = 0.037, r = 0.46) and alone (t(19) = 2.12, p = 0.047, r = 0.44) conditions."

Discussion¶

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